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From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:11:09 +0200
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Subject: Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline
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Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:

> We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain().

Agreed.

> Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding
> the defaults. Example:
>     boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar

This looks like a nice feature to me, especially for development.  I
wonder what others think of it.

> Comments?

Where is the changelog entry? ;)

Thanks,
Marco