From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@mail.hofr.at>
Cc: Khai Trinh <kqtrinh@yahoo.com>, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Where is lilo.conf in the kernel source tree?
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:50:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114155021.GA791@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301102033.h0AKXr114249@hofr.at>
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:33:53PM +0100, Der Herr Hofrat wrote:
>
> >
> > I would like to reserve a piece of High RAM memory for
> > DMA. The Linux 2.4 Drivers book show to appand
> > MEM=reserve_size to the lilo.conf file.
> >
> > Would someone please let me know where this file is in
> > the kernel tree? I couldn't seem to locate it.
>
> its in /etc/ by default not in the kernel tree.
... and more importantly lilo is only one of many boot methods which is
ia32 (afaik) only. Argument passing is per-arch. On PPC32, you can set
CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y and then set a cmdline to use. If you're using
PPCBoot on your board, there's another way to do it, without recompiling
the kernel.
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-10 19:11 Where is lilo.conf in the kernel source tree? Khai Trinh
2003-01-10 20:33 ` Der Herr Hofrat
2003-01-14 15:50 ` Tom Rini [this message]
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