Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755967AbZAADnS (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:43:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753620AbZAADnD (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:43:03 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:45991 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753589AbZAADnB (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:43:01 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: "Yinghai Lu" , Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: linux-next: parsing mem=700M broken Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:12:56 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27-9-generic; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) Cc: "Hugh Dickins" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Stephen Rothwell" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul Mackerras" , "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" References: <86802c440812271807q3decd21i5da99754d708449d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86802c440812271807q3decd21i5da99754d708449d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901011412.57707.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 25 On Sunday 28 December 2008 12:37:59 Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I have to wonder if all this comes too late in the cycle for 2.6.29: > > changing the early param handling of all the arches is difficult, > > and apparently hasn't been much tested in the short time that it's > > been out there in linux-next. But of course, not for me to decide. > > should be ok, just need to go over all early_param() Yes, and understanding the intricacies of all 20+ archs boot code. For example, I've just noticed that MIPS sets up the command line in prom_init, called from setup_arch, so I've broken that entirely. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-boot-params.git This is not going to make this merge window: I need to audit each arch more deeply, then get help testing. Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/