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

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Date:   Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:40:15 -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

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@...or.com> wrote:
>
> On March 23, 2020 11:54:28 AM PDT, ron minnich <rminnich@...il.com> wrote:
> >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
>
> I would prefer if we could put both into the same patchset.
> --
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