linux-kernel - Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

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Message-ID: <50E473DB.4050504@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:52:27 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
CC:	Shea Levy <shea@...alevy.com>,
	"linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

On 01/02/2013 09:43 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 08:26:29AM -0500, Shea Levy wrote:
> 
>> Hm, ok. Does the boot stub have access to CONFIG_CMDLINE? Or could 
>> another compile-time setting be added so that distros can ship livecds 
>> that automatically use a config file found at a hard-coded location?
> 
> Just pass the config file as the first argument?
> 

CONFIG_CMDLINE can certainly become available to the stub... it's a
compile-time constant.

	-hpa

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