From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: support preset lpj value as config option
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:02:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BA5053.1070005@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070126184628.GY10108@waste.org>
Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> The idea was to allow putting something like "%s" in the built-in
> command line and expanding that with the provided command line. This
> allows you to append/prepend/ignore the provided command line as you
> desire.
>
> This is a fair bit more complicated than what the existing
> implementations of CONFIG_CMDLINE are doing and details like
> early_cmdline handling don't help matters. Haven't yet come up with an
> implementation I'm happy with.
>
Yes, and it's worth noting that with the edd stuff we actually parse the
command line from real mode as well.
One way to do it would be to construct the command line in real mode
code. It's not really all that hard, but wouldn't work for those that
jump directly to the PM entrypoint.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 0:12 [PATCH] init: support preset lpj value as config option Tim Bird
2007-01-25 2:18 ` Paul Mundt
2007-01-25 18:24 ` Tim Bird
2007-01-26 10:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 18:29 ` Tim Bird
2007-01-26 18:46 ` Matt Mackall
2007-01-26 19:02 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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