On 9/1/05, Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in > > initrd or similar from which to load additional options. > > a file in initrd isn't a good choice; as the initrd is generally a fix > image > > the point is some bootloaders might want to pass quite a bit of state > to the kernel at times (i actually have this for a mip32 target where > i construct a table and pass a pointer to that in, a tad icky but for > lack of options) > Well, it wouldn't have to be initrd specifically. Generally what's needed is *some* way to tell the kernel "please read more options from location <foo>". The interresting bit is what <foo>'s supposed to be.
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