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Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 17:07:26 -0400
From:   Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] initrd: Remove erroneous comment
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 02:03:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 2020-06-22 14:01, Tom Rini wrote:
> >=20
> > 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=3D/file just like "initrd /file" in extlinux.con=
f,
> > etc do.  And since the EFI stub is cross-platform, it's worth noting
> > this too.
>=20
> 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.

--=20
Tom

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