Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:47:46 -0500 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86 built-in command line |
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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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