Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:33 -0500
From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
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        Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>,
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        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v5 5/5] Make reboot_cpuid a kernel parameter.
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:59:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It is also worth noting that the documentation says reboot=s[mp]#
> whereas in fact only reboot=s# parse correctly.  I consider this to be a
> bug.
> 
> If we centralized the parser, we could take a string like
> 
> "reboot=bios,smp32,warm"
> 
> and parse it into:
> 
> reboot_cpu = 32
> reboot_mode = "bw"
> 
> ... and pass the information in that form to the arch layer.  I don't
> think we can do more parsing at that in the main kernel.

OK.  I will go back to the drawing board again.

Robin
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