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Subject: Re: [PATCH] initrd: Remove erroneous comment
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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.

	-hpa