From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>,
"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:52:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E473DB.4050504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130102174319.GA2590@srcf.ucam.org>
On 01/02/2013 09:43 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:26:29AM -0500, Shea Levy wrote:
>
>> Hm, ok. Does the boot stub have access to CONFIG_CMDLINE? Or could
>> another compile-time setting be added so that distros can ship livecds
>> that automatically use a config file found at a hard-coded location?
>
> Just pass the config file as the first argument?
>
CONFIG_CMDLINE can certainly become available to the stub... it's a
compile-time constant.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-02 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-01 15:55 Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support Shea Levy
2013-01-01 17:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-02 13:26 ` Shea Levy
2013-01-02 17:43 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-01-02 17:52 ` Shea Levy
2013-01-02 17:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-01-02 17:52 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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