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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
	ptx@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: adding aliases to mmc ... again
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:01:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537F70F1.8010608@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140523092359.GG15686@pengutronix.de>

On 05/23/2014 03:23 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
...
> Speaking of which my preferred solution is another one. As a bootloader
> developer it really annoys me that I don't have the possibility to tell
> the kernel to boot a particular device. What I really want to do is to
> pass a devicetree phandle to the kernel for the rootfs (Or a device path
> for the EFI/ACPI guys). This would solve a whole lot of problems here.

Why not implement a root= kernel cmdline option that provides exactly that?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-23 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-22 15:30 adding aliases to mmc ... again Sascha Hauer
2014-05-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] of: Add helper for getting the maximum alias index for a stem Sascha Hauer
2014-05-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] mmc: Allow setting slot index via devicetree alias Sascha Hauer
2014-05-22 16:16 ` adding aliases to mmc ... again Stephen Warren
2014-05-22 18:21   ` Sascha Hauer
2014-05-22 19:23     ` Stephen Warren
2014-05-23  8:29       ` Michael Olbrich
2014-05-23 16:02         ` Stephen Warren
2014-05-23  9:23       ` Sascha Hauer
2014-05-23 16:01         ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2014-05-24  5:10           ` Sascha Hauer

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