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Date:	Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:36:42 +0200
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Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:21:22 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe you can add something like "initrdmem=xxx@yyy", keeping
>>> "rd_start" and "rd_size" for the backward compatibility.  Just a
>>> thought.
>> Well that what I was planning when writing this patch but I didn't.
>> I think that we will end up with two different semantics and the
>> old one never replaced by the new one... Except if we mark them as
>> deprecated by showing a warning at boot. What do you think ?
> 
> While the kernel command line is very limited resource (only 256
> chars), I prefer a single short option to specify initrd range, if
> available.
> 
> But nothing wrong with rd_start and rd_size, and it seems there are
> some boot loader expected them already, so removing them would not be
> good (especially without some grace period).
> 
> I don't care if there were two way to specify initrd range.  It would
> be somewhat redundant, but that is usual on "Backword compatibility"
> issue, isn't it?  ;-)
> 

Well, I resent a new version (take #2) of the patchset that uses _only_
"rd_xxx" semantic. I prefer not add some code which isn't going to be
used. Mainly because only bootloaders use this parameter and I guess
they never change the way they pass initrd address. And there won't be
a lot of new bootloaders anyways.

Thanks
		Franck