Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2003 05:10:31 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: mem=16MB laptop testing |
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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...
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