On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 01:31:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026, at 13:01, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> > You fully control your software, so just build initramfs which is
> > absolutely trivial and we all moved on to that for arm64 long time ago.

> I still regularly boot KVM guests on arm64 without an initramfs,
> but I just use 'make kvm_guest.config', which turns on all the
> commonly used virtio drivers as built-in. I wouldn't call
> 9pfs root trivial without initramfs, configuring 9p built-in
> is already complicated enough.

> So I agree we don't need this patch, but there is a trivial
> workaround for Anshuman in case he wants to avoid doing this.

Though watch out for the fact that this currently disables KVM which
isn't so helpful on the multiple architectures that have nested guest
support.  I'll send a patch for that.