Re: [PATCH] Update palo documentation

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 22:01 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 07.07.19 21:45, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 20:44 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> > > On 07.07.19 20:01, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > > > +Palo allows you to specify a kernel command line, which is
> > > > stored
> > > > in
> > > > +the firstboot partition.  The format should be kernel first
> > > > followed
> > > > +by an optional initrd= and then the rest of the kernel
> > > > parameters.
> > > > +For parisc system, you should specify a boot console as
> > > > console=
> > > > on
> > > > +the command line.
> > > 
> > > No, that's not recommended.
> > > palo will detect the currently used console and add it
> > > automatically,
> > > so one should NOT specify a console parameter.
> > 
> > Ah well, I've got an rp3430 so its console name changes depending
> > on kernel, which is why I specify it, but I can remove that from
> > "For parisc system, you should ..."
> 
> The rp34xx series should work fine as well.
> Can you give details, because I pushed a patch into stable series
> which should have fixed that:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/co
> mmit/?id=bcf3f1752a622f1372d3252d0fea8855d89812e7

It's a 3.16 based rescue kernel and ramdisk I built long ago and keep
around just in case.

James