Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 09:04:04PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> It does not work if / on a ROM, unless you start using trampoline
> >> partition, but this is starting to become really convoluted...
> >
> > On a ROM you never change the kernel.
> >
> For this particular board, the kernel is on a small read-write NOR
> flash, and the userland on write-protected NAND chip.

You can use a initrd

And hopefully it's not connected to any network, because you can't
fix any security holes.

-Andi

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