On 9/17/25 07:31, Alyssa Ross wrote: > Demi Marie Obenour writes: > >> The initramfs already mounted both of them. >> >> Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour >> --- >> It's true that this does increase the reliance on an initramfs, but it >> is also trivial to revert if Spectrum OS ever stops using one. Linux >> supports creating dm-verity devices via dm-mod.create= and (if needed) >> dm-mod.waitfor=, so eliminating an initramfs might be possible but is a >> separate project. > > I'd still prefer we don't rely on initramfs behaviour any more than we > need to — it just makes things more brittle and difficult to understand. Does the mount we are using blindly mount a second instance of procfs and sysfs? If so, I'd rather reuse the initramfs versions. Otherwise, keeping things as-is is fine. > IIRC I tried using those kernel parameters before, but they weren't > workable for what we needed. I don't remember the details. I suspect they are meant for embedded systems with known hardware. Ideally partition table parsing would be in userspace anyway. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)