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

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Message-Id: <200608010318.06459.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 1 Aug 2006 03:18:06 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	dsaxena@...xity.net
Cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 built-in command line

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 03:06, 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.

One problem is that some architectures (like i386/x86-64) have early 
boot arguments that are processed before init/main

-Andi
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