Re: linux-next: parsing mem=700M broken

Rusty Russell
2009-01-01T03:43:18Z

On Sunday 28 December 2008 12:37:59 Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> > I have to wonder if all this comes too late in the cycle for 2.6.29:
> > changing the early param handling of all the arches is difficult,
> > and apparently hasn't been much tested in the short time that it's
> > been out there in linux-next. But of course, not for me to decide.
>
> should be ok, just need to go over all early_param()

Yes, and understanding the intricacies of all 20+ archs boot code.
For example, I've just noticed that MIPS sets up the command line
in prom_init, called from setup_arch, so I've broken that entirely.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-boot-params.git

This is not going to make this merge window: I need to audit each arch
more deeply, then get help testing.

Thanks,
Rusty.