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

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Message-ID: <CAP6exYKCgyM-PFPGLds9LcLPjOMOX40ff2261ZpUuUYijRrCxg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:19:26 -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 think it may be fine at this point. The only reference to initrd= is
in some of the platform-specific docs and I'm reluctant to change
those. wdyt?

thanks again

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 8:31 PM H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-03-23 15:29, ron minnich wrote:
> > sounds good, I'm inclined to want to mention only initrdmem= in
> > Documentation? or just say initrd is discouraged or deprecated?
>
> Deprecated, yes.
>
>         -hpa
>