linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] initrd: Remove erroneous comment

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Message-ID: <20200622210726.GO27801@bill-the-cat>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:07:26 -0400
From:   Tom Rini <trini@...sulko.com>
To:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     ron minnich <rminnich@...il.com>,
        lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] initrd: Remove erroneous comment

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 02:03:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 2020-06-22 14:01, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 
> > I'm picky here because, well, there's a whole lot of moving parts in the
> > pre-kernel world.  In a strict sense, "UEFI" doesn't do anything with
> > the kernel but based on hpa's comments I assume that at least the
> > in-kernel UEFI stub does what Documentation/x86/booting.rst suggests to
> > do and consumes initrd=/file just like "initrd /file" in extlinux.conf,
> > etc do.  And since the EFI stub is cross-platform, it's worth noting
> > this too.
> 
> For what it's worth, normally boot loaders don't strip this from the
> kernel command line passed to the kernel, although there might be ones
> which do so. In general this is bad practice; it is better to let the
> initrd show in /proc/cmdline.

Strongly agree.

-- 
Tom

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