First of all, if sending attached patches, *MAKE SURE* they're text/plain.
diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.20/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.20/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c linux-2.6.20-gujin/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c --- linux-2.6.20/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2007-02-04 18:44:54.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.20-gujin/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2007-02-05 21:27:01.000000000 +0000 @@ -579,6 +579,19 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) strlcpy(command_line, saved_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); *cmdline_p = command_line; + /* + * If the command line begin with '/', it is the filename of the + * kernel file - like a shell command line. That can be used to + * deduce where root was located when the kernel was compiled, + * inside a directory of root named /boot, inside a small partition + * mounted on a directory of root named /boot or in the root + * directory itself. + */ + if (**cmdline_p == '/') + while (**cmdline_p != ' ' && **cmdline_p != '\t' + && **cmdline_p != '\n' && **cmdline_p != '\0') + ++*cmdline_p; + max_low_pfn = setup_memory(); /*
The standard way to do this is to have a command line argument named BOOT_IMAGE (as in BOOT_IMAGE=/foo/bar/baz). There is no reason to do this differently from every other bootloader.
Why build the real-mode code as part of the kernel binary? If you have to reference kernel symbols, you can do that with the -R option to ld. Bundling it into the kernel binary just to then extract it later is silly at best.
@@ -1106,6 +1179,9 @@ help: @echo 'Other generic targets:' @echo ' all - Build all targets marked with [*]' @echo '* vmlinux - Build the bare kernel' + @echo " /boot/linux-$(KERNELRELEASE).kgz - create a boot kernel for the Gujin bootloader" + @echo ' /boot/linux.kgz ROOT=/dev/hda1 - do not autodetect root filesystem at boot time' + @echo ' /boot/linux.kgz ROOT=auto - root filesystem from current /proc/cmdline' @echo '* modules - Build all modules' @echo ' modules_install - Install all modules to INSTALL_MOD_PATH (default: /)' @echo ' dir/ - Build all files in dir and below'
This doesn't exactly fit very well the standard pattern. Something like make gujin TARGET=... would be more like it.
Given how many of your files are highly Gujin-specific, and have generic names, please put them in a subdirectory (e.g. arch/i386/boot/gujin/).
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