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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:51:02 -0500
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 built-in command line
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On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:40:41AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 16:55 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > This patch allows building in a kernel command line on x86 as is
> > possible on several other arches.
> 
> wouldn't it make more sense to allow the initramfs to set such arguments
> instead?

Huh?

Are you suggesting we go digging around in a gzipped initramfs image at
early command line parsing time? I can't really see how that would work. 

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