Technically you neither need autoconfiguration nor CONFIG_ROOT_NFS.
With an initrd/initramfs you can do the whole procedure from userspace.
And AFAIR a few years back those options where on the brink of beeing
deprecated for just that reason.
Just my 2 cents.
Bis denn
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