From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:41:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060801024102.GS6908@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CEBEAF.8030203@zytor.com>
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:38:39PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Actually, the best thing to do might be to designate a symbol (say &,
> like in automount) as "insert the boot loader command line here."
>
> That way you can specify things in the builtin command line that are
> both prepended and appended to the boot loader command, and if you wish,
> you can emit it completely.
>
> The default would be just "&".
That idea doesn't suck. I'll take a look at it.
We still have a problem with overriding things like console=tty, for
which there's no obvious fix that doesn't break the world.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-31 17:14 [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line Matt Mackall
2006-07-31 17:46 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-07-31 20:07 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-31 20:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-31 22:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-01 1:43 ` Matt Mackall
2006-08-01 2:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 2:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 2:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 2:41 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2006-08-01 2:44 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-01 2:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 2:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-01 2:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-01 2:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-01 1:06 ` Deepak Saxena
2006-08-01 1:18 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-01 3:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
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