From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: dsaxena@plexity.net
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:47:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CECED0.8010503@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060801010652.GA17771@plexity.net>
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.
>
Yes on the generic option, no on putting it in init/main.c... on a lot
of architectures, some parsing of the command line happens *very* early,
sometimes even before the C code is invoked.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 3:47 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
2006-08-01 3:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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