That seems a little hacky to me...
> > I actually think that an nfsroot.gz initrd would do everything the
> > current kernel mechanism does.
>
> Yes, and it could even do more clever things than NFS root does right
> now. What I meant was that it's trivial to just make a kernel boot
> floppy, but constructing something with kernel, nfsroot, and boot loader
> is more complex. Naturally, with time, packages and scripts should show
> up to simplify this too.
Right.
> > exec() init works just fine. I have used it. I don't think there is
> > any need to put that in kernel space.
>
> Great, so we're already half there :)
-hpa
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