Re: [PATCH] x86 built-in command line

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Jun 11 2006 - 20:14:23 EST


On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 18:51 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:40:41AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 16:55 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > This patch allows building in a kernel command line on x86 as is
> > > possible on several other arches.
> >
> > wouldn't it make more sense to allow the initramfs to set such arguments
> > instead?
>
> Huh?
>
> Are you suggesting we go digging around in a gzipped initramfs image at
> early command line parsing time? I can't really see how that would work.

but.. the example you give is for the rootfs.. which is used only really
late...


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