From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:02:17 +0100 (BST) Received: from bender.bawue.de ([193.7.176.20]:37074 "EHLO bender.bawue.de") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20042192AbWHIMCN (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:02:13 +0100 Received: from lagash (mipsfw.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bender.bawue.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19201461C8; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:59:10 +0200 (MEST) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GAlzZ-0008Gc-U3; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:12:53 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:12:53 +0100 From: Thiemo Seufer To: Franck , franck.bui-huu@innova-card.com Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp, ralf@linux-mips.org, yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] setup.c: use early_param() for early command line parsing Message-ID: <20060809111253.GA28128@networkno.de> References: <1155041312273-git-send-email-vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> <1155041313139-git-send-email-vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> <20060808125604.GI29989@networkno.de> <44D898FE.7080006@innova-card.com> <20060808151409.GA1177@networkno.de> <44D9999E.60908@innova-card.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D9999E.60908@innova-card.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 12246 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Franck Bui-Huu wrote: [snip] > >>> It also is IMHO a bad idea to overload the > >>> semantics of initrd= with both file names and memory locations. > >> I wasn't aware of any file name usages. Can you give a pointer ? > > > > Documentation/initrd.txt > > Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt > > > > I was asking for pointers on MIPS bootloaders which use > initrd=/path/to/initrd... AFAIR arcboot does. > Anyways, you're talking about specific bootloader's parameters, > aren't you ? I don't know any MIPS bootloaders, but I wouldn't > expect them to pass their own parameters to the kernel, that > would be surprising... > > What are you suggesting ? kernel_initrd ? > > BTW, what do you think about rd_start/rd_size names ? Is there a good reason to change it? Thiemo