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Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2023 23:18:05 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] bootconfig: Apply early options from embedded
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:04:00 +0100
Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 11:22:07AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > BTW, we also need to make a block-list for some early params. some of those
> > MUST be passed from the bootloader. E.g. initrd address and size will be
> > passed from the bootloader via commandline. Thus such params in the embedded
> > bootconfig should be filtered at the build time.
> 
> It's ok to configure these in the embedded bootconfig - in a case they are
> provided by the bootloader, the bootconfig value is overridden, if not, the
> value from bootconfig is used, so it works as expected.

I meant some params only bootloader knows, like where the initrd is loaded.
Anyway, if user sets such value, it will break the kernel boot as expected :P.

Thank you,

>   Petr


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