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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86 built-in command line
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:30:27AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >This patch allows building in a kernel command line on x86 as is
> >possible on several other arches.
> >
> >+config CMDLINE
> >+ On some systems, there is no way for the boot loader to pass
> >+ arguments to the kernel. For these platforms, you can supply
> >+ some command-line options at build time by entering them
> >+ here. In most cases you will need to specify the root device
> >+ here.
>
> Thank God x86 does not have that limitation. Or am I missing some exotic
> bootloader that fails to pass in arguments?

Yes. Note that this depends on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It's quite common for
embedded apps to roll their own trivial ROM-based boot loaders. It's
also quite common for embedded boxen to run up against the command
line length limit that's hardcoded in the boot protocol.

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