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SubjectRe: [RFC 5/8] param: arch_get_boot_command_line() (take II)
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:28:32AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2008 05:07:25 Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > I pulled your git tree. All my test configs build cleanly
> > > for ia64 ... but sadly the first kernel I tested (generic_defconfig)
> > > doesn't boot (no console output at all).
> > >
> > > I'll see if I can figure out what is going on.
> >
> > Aha.
>
> OK, both appended to git tree.
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-boot-params.git
>
> If noone else complains, I'll fold the fix and ask Stephen to take the tree
> for linux-next.

One commit in there looks rather dirty:

| commit c3f789e6270db86717ef578fa2383ca59b134108
| Author: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| Date: Thu Dec 4 11:06:18 2008 +1030
|
| Aha. You are now calling machvec_init_from_cmdline() too early (before
| efi_init() and io_port_init()) ... so we croak accessing things
| that have not been set up. Naive fix is to just move them from
| setup_arch() to arch_get_boot_command_line(). I can't see how to
| handle this more cleanly given that you do the rest of the
| command line parsing before calling setup_arch().
|
| With the addition of this patch ia64 bits are
|
| Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

I'm wondering whether the ia64 bits are now green, yellow or maybe they're
taking some terminal exercise by jumping off the cliff like lemmings.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:


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