Re: [PATCH] x86 built-in command line

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20060611235101.GK24227@xxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:40:41AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 16:55 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > This patch allows building in a kernel command line on x86 as is
> > > possible on several other arches.
> > 
> > wouldn't it make more sense to allow the initramfs to set such arguments
> > instead?
> 
> Huh?
> 
> Are you suggesting we go digging around in a gzipped initramfs image at
> early command line parsing time? I can't really see how that would work. 
> 

You can append to it without unzipping it.  It's probably the wrong
thing for this, though, since there are numerous stages of kernel
initialization which don't have access to the initramfs.

	-hpa
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