Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] cmdline: Gives architectures opportunity to use generically defined boot cmdline manipulation

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 25/03/2021 à 20:32, Will Deacon a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:18:38PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > - For ARM it means to append the bootloader arguments to the CONFIG_CMDLINE
> > - For Powerpc it means to append the CONFIG_CMDLINE to the bootloader arguments
> > - For SH  it means to append the CONFIG_CMDLINE to the bootloader arguments
> > - For EFI it means to append the bootloader arguments to the CONFIG_CMDLINE
> > - For OF it means to append the CONFIG_CMDLINE to the bootloader arguments
> >
> > So what happens on ARM for instance when it selects CONFIG_OF for instance ?
>
> I think ARM gets different behaviour depending on whether it uses ATAGs or
> FDT.

As far as I can see, ARM uses either ATAGs only or both ATAGs and FDT. ATAGs is forced to 'y' when 
USE_OF is set. Do I miss something ?

> > Or should we consider that EXTEND means APPEND or PREPEND, no matter which ?
> > Because EXTEND is for instance used for:
> >
> > 	config INITRAMFS_FORCE
> > 		bool "Ignore the initramfs passed by the bootloader"
> > 		depends on CMDLINE_EXTEND || CMDLINE_FORCE
>
> Oh man, I didn't spot that one :(
>
> I think I would make the generic options explicit: either APPEND or PREPEND.
> Then architectures which choose to define CMDLINE_EXTEND in their Kconfigs
> can select the generic option that matches their behaviour.
>
> INITRAMFS_FORCE sounds like it should depend on APPEND (assuming that means
> CONFIG_CMDLINE is appended to the bootloader arguments).


Christophe