From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751456AbWHABSU (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:18:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751458AbWHABSU (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:18:20 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49595 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751456AbWHABST (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:18:19 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: dsaxena@plexity.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 03:18:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Matt Mackall , linux-kernel , Andrew Morton References: <20060731171442.GI6908@waste.org> <20060801010652.GA17771@plexity.net> In-Reply-To: <20060801010652.GA17771@plexity.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608010318.06459.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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