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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: dsaxena@plexity.net
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 03:18:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608010318.06459.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060801010652.GA17771@plexity.net>

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 03:06, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> On Jul 31 2006, at 12:14, Matt Mackall was caught saying:
> > Allow setting a command line at build time on x86_64. Compiled but not
> > tested.
> 
> Can we just make this into a generic option and put the relevant strcpy
> (strcat) in init/main.c. We've supported a default in-kernel command line
> on ARM for sometime now and I think it would be best to just have a single
> implementation.

One problem is that some architectures (like i386/x86-64) have early 
boot arguments that are processed before init/main

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01  1:18 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
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 [this message]
2006-08-01  3:47   ` H. Peter Anvin

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