Re: [PATCH] init/do_mounts.c: Add root="fstag:<tag>" syntax for root device

[Dominique Martinet]

Stefan Hajnoczi wrote on Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 09:16:38AM +0100:
> virtio-9p should be simple. I'm not sure how much additional setup the
> other 9p transports require. TCP and RDMA seem doable if there are
> kernel parameters to configure things before the root file system is
> mounted.

For TCP, we can probably piggyback on what nfs does for this, see the
ip= parameter in Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst -- it lives
in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c so should just work out of the box

For RDMA I'm less optimistic, technically if we can setup ipoib with an
ip with the same parameter it should work, but I have nothing to test it
on anyway so that'll wait until someone who cares actually does try...


Either way, we've got to start somewhere, so it's good there's something :)
-- 
Dominique