This patch has been verified to apply cleanly to 2.5.30
This patch adds support for "initrd=start,size" on the kernel command
line. This allows us (the ARM folk) to give details of the initrd
on the (default) command line rather than hard-coding such stuff
into the kernel proper.
drivers/block/rd.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 19 insertions
diff -urN orig/drivers/block/rd.c linux/drivers/block/rd.c
--- orig/drivers/block/rd.c Thu Jul 25 20:13:26 2002
+++ linux/drivers/block/rd.c Fri Aug 2 17:34:53 2002
@@ -349,6 +349,25 @@
release: initrd_release,
};
+/*
+ * Add function to specify initrd address as initrd=start,size
+ * start is a phyical address
+ * size is the size of the initrd ramdisk
+ */
+
+static int __init setup_initrd(char *str)
+{
+ unsigned long start = memparse(str, &str);
+
+ if (str && *str == ',') {
+ initrd_start = (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(start);
+ initrd_end = initrd_start + memparse(str + 1, &str);
+ }
+ return 1;
+}
+
+__setup("initrd=", setup_initrd);
+
#endif
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