[klibc] Early-userspace and swapping

[H. Peter Anvin]

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> 
>>  I figure that with all these subsystems being planned to be put 
>>in initramfs it might me a good idea to have that memory swapped out 
>>since I've seen a lot of embedded systems with little ram but lots of HD 
>>space.
> 
> Actually, I wouldn't expect that to be necessary.  The most likely use
> of initramfs is to have just enough contents to make it possible to boot
> into a more normal userspace; we're not talking about more than a few
> hundred Kbytes.  The main things that belong there from a functionality
> standpoint are udev, dm, and kinit, and they don't amount to much.
> 

Also, you're unlikely to have access to swap at that point.

	-hpa