From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:41:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:41:46 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:8970 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:41:45 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: NFS mounted rootfs possible via PCMCIA NIC ? Date: 12 Dec 2002 13:49:22 -0800 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <200212112253.57325.andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> <1039648320.18467.49.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <200212121829.46465.andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2002 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <200212121829.46465.andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> By author: Andreas Schaufler In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > ... > > PCMCIA relies in part on user space. You can do this, it involves > > building a large initrd with a dhcp client on it that sets up pcmcia, > > then nfs mounts stuff, then pivot_root()'s into it. Its not exactly > > trivial > > Thanks for your reply. I get the basic idea from what you say. But what do you > mean by pivot_root()'ing into it ?!? > pivot_root() is a system call which flips the root directory around. See Documentation/initrd.txt. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt