linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line

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Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:47:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	dsaxena@...xity.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line

Deepak Saxena wrote:
> On Jul 31 2006, at 12:14, Matt Mackall was caught saying:
>> Allow setting a command line at build time on x86_64. Compiled but not
>> tested.
> 
> Can we just make this into a generic option and put the relevant strcpy
> (strcat) in init/main.c. We've supported a default in-kernel command line
> on ARM for sometime now and I think it would be best to just have a single
> implementation.
> 

Yes on the generic option, no on putting it in init/main.c... on a lot 
of architectures, some parsing of the command line happens *very* early, 
sometimes even before the C code is invoked.

	-hpa
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