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

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Message-ID: <CAP6exYJdCzG5EOPB9uaWz+uG-KKt+j7aJMGMfqqD3vthco_Y_g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:54:28 -0700
From:   ron minnich <rminnich@...il.com>
To:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE..." <x86@...nel.org>,
        lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86 support for the initrd= command line option

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:19 AM <hpa@...or.com> 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