Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86 support for the initrd= command line option

From: ron minnich
Date: Mon Mar 23 2020 - 15:40:29 EST


I'm wondering -- adding initrdmem= is easy, do you think we'll ever be
able to end uses of initrd= in the ARM and MIPS world? Is it ok to
have these two identical command line parameters? I'm guessing just
changing initrd= would be hard.

Do we just accept initrd= from this day forward, as well as initrdmem=?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:06 PM <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On March 23, 2020 11:54:28 AM PDT, ron minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:19 AM <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Pointing to any number of memory chunks via setup_data works and
> >doesn't need to be exposed to the user, but I guess the above is
> >reasonable.
> >
> >so, good to go?
> >
> >>
> >> *However*, I would also suggest adding "initrdmem=" across
> >architectures that doesn't have the ambiguity.
> >
> >agreed. I can look at doing that next.
> >
> >ron
>
> I would prefer if we could put both into the same patchset.
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