Subject: Re: [PATCH] bootup: Add built-in kernel command line for x86
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-embedded <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:48:51 -0500
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On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:31 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 14:31 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:
> >> The default behavior is to append the boot loader string
> >> to this one.  However, there is a mechanism (leading '!')
> >> to force the built-in string to override the boot loader
> >> string.
> > 
> > Nice solution.
> > 
> > Where is this relative to early boot option checking?
> 
> parse_early_param() is right AFTER this in the x86 setup_arch()
> function (in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c).  All the other command-line
> handling I could find is after this in init/main.c:start_kernel().

Ok, there are a couple weird outliers outside of that still, but that
should make most people satisfied.

-- 
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