From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:02:01 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Stefan Jeglinski Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: how to pass kernel command parameters? Message-ID: <20040120230201.GQ13454@stop.crashing.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:27:38PM -0500, Stefan Jeglinski wrote: > > I have a Brightstar box with an MPC823, booting under 2.4.21 at the > moment. But at the "Linux/PPC load:" line I have to enter a rather > long string of parameters (IP numbers etc), I guess due to the boot > ROM code that's part of this little Brightstar device. > > What is the proper way to automate the passing of these parameters? > I'm gathering that all ppc kernel boots have this line to stop at, > but the passing of parameters to it is automated. > > Should I be constructing a custom ram disk that contains the info? If > so, what's a good resource about making ram disks and how to do this? > If not, how is one supposed to do it? I don't suppose one should be > hard-coding misc-simple.c or misc-embedded.c... ? All that is needed, via your favorite config target is: CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y CONFIG_CMDLINE="everything to pass in" -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/