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From:   ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:19:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86 support for the initrd= command line option
To:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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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@zytor.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
>