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SubjectRe: [PATCH] initrd: Remove erroneous comment
So, let me first add,  the comment can be removed as needed. Comments
offered only for clarification.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:40 PM Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> wrote:

> But what do you mean UEFI "consumes" initrd= ?

What I mean is, there are bootloaders that will, if they see initrd=
in the command line, remove it: the kernel will never see it.

> I guess looking at
> Documentation/x86/boot.rst is where treating initrd= as a file that
> should be handled and ramdisk_image / ramdisk_size set came from. I do
> wonder what happens in the case of ARM/ARM64 + UEFI without device tree.

it is possible that the initrd= argument will not be seen by the
kernel. That's my understanding. Will this be a problem if so? It
would be for me :-)

> And it doesn't provide any sort of link / context to the
> boot loader specification project or similar that explains the cases
> when a non-filename "initrd=" would reasonably (or unreasonably but
> happens in reality) be removed.

But it unreasonably happens as I learned the hard way :-)

Anyway, thanks Tom, I have no objections to whatever you all feel is
best to do with that comment. It was a failed attempt on my part to
explain the state of things :-)

ron

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