Re: mem=16MB laptop testing

Andrew Morton
2003-10-14T12:07:18Z

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:56:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I guess not mounting /sys doesn't help here. It would be nice. Maybe with
> > a CONFIG_I_WILL_NEVER_MOUNT_SYSFS we could avoid all those allocations.
>
> I believe sysfs is required for mounting the root filesystem - see
> name_to_dev_t in init/do_mounts.c.

OK. But it looks like if /sys is empty and you provide "root=03:02" then
things will still work. It's a matter of trying it...