Re: [PATCH] bootup: Add built-in kernel command line for x86

Matt Mackall
2008-08-06T22:50:56Z

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:31 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:31 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> >> The default behavior is to append the boot loader string
> >> to this one. However, there is a mechanism (leading '!')
> >> to force the built-in string to override the boot loader
> >> string.
> >
> > Nice solution.
> >
> > Where is this relative to early boot option checking?
>
> parse_early_param() is right AFTER this in the x86 setup_arch()
> function (in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c). All the other command-line
> handling I could find is after this in init/main.c:start_kernel().

Ok, there are a couple weird outliers outside of that still, but that
should make most people satisfied.

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