[PATCH] CONFIG_CMDLINE broken on ppc

[Olaf Hering]

CONFIG_CMDLINE can not work on ppc.
machine_init() copies the string to cmd_line, then platform_init() is
called. It truncates the string to length zero.



--- ./arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c.kaputt    2004-09-08 14:23:36.000000000 +0200
+++ ./arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c   2004-09-08 15:30:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -418,7 +418,9 @@ platform_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned
         * are used for initrd_start and initrd_size,
         * otherwise they contain 0xdeadbeef.
         */
+#if 0  
        cmd_line[0] = 0;
+#endif 
        if (r3 >= 0x4000 && r3 < 0x800000 && r4 == 0) {
                strlcpy(cmd_line, (char *)r3 + KERNELBASE,
                        sizeof(cmd_line));


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