[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add support for "ROOT=" on the kernel command line

[Harald Hoyer]

On 15.01.2015 16:45, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> On 15.01.2015 16:24, harald at redhat.com wrote:
>> From: Harald Hoyer <harald at redhat.com>
>>
>> "ROOT=" mounts the initial ramdisk with a tmpfs filesystem.
> 
> Ok, not true. Omitting "root=" will mount the initial ramdisk as a tmpfs
> filesystem, if tmpfs support is compiled in the kernel.
> 
> Seems like the preferred way of having the initrd as tmpfs, is to specify
> "ROOT=" instead of "root=".
> 

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6e19eded3684dc184181093af3bff2ff440f5b53