Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | [PATCH] 8: 2.5.29-rd | Date | Sat, 03 Aug 2002 19:16:18 +0100 |
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This patch has been verified to apply cleanly to 2.5.30
This patch adds support for "initrd=start,size" on the kernel command line. This allows us (the ARM folk) to give details of the initrd on the (default) command line rather than hard-coding such stuff into the kernel proper.
drivers/block/rd.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions
diff -urN orig/drivers/block/rd.c linux/drivers/block/rd.c --- orig/drivers/block/rd.c Thu Jul 25 20:13:26 2002 +++ linux/drivers/block/rd.c Fri Aug 2 17:34:53 2002 @@ -349,6 +349,25 @@ release: initrd_release, }; +/* + * Add function to specify initrd address as initrd=start,size + * start is a phyical address + * size is the size of the initrd ramdisk + */ + +static int __init setup_initrd(char *str) +{ + unsigned long start = memparse(str, &str); + + if (str && *str == ',') { + initrd_start = (unsigned long)phys_to_virt(start); + initrd_end = initrd_start + memparse(str + 1, &str); + } + return 1; +} + +__setup("initrd=", setup_initrd); + #endif - 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/
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