Re: [RFC 5/8] param: arch_get_boot_command_line()

[Haavard Skinnemoen]

Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2008 23:48:07 Russell King wrote:
> > So there's quite a bit which needs to be done to get at the command line.
> > Basically, what's required is:
> >
> > - convert param struct to tag list
> > - if no tag list, use default tag list
> > - run machine specific fixups which may set memory layout
> > - if memory layout has been set, kill off any memory atags to prevent it
> >   being overwritten
> > - parse all atags which includes setting the command line if such a tag
> >   is found
> >
> > Then, and only then can you be sure that you have the right command line.  
> 
>    Thanks for the clue donation.  I've read the code harder now.  Tricky.

I think avr32 might need something similar as it also gets the command
line from a tag list. But we never really do anything tricky with those
tags, so I think it should work to simply move the call to parse_tags()
from setup_arch() into arch_get_boot_command_line().

Haavard
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