Re: [PATCH 6/6] setup.c: use early_param() for early command line parsing

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> There's no point to rewrite some logic to parse command line
> to pass initrd parameters or to declare a user memory area.
> We could use instead parse_early_param() that does the same
> thing.
> 
> NOTE ! This patch also changes the initrd semantic. Old code
> was expecting "rd_start=xxx rd_size=xxx" which uses two
> parameters. Now the code expects "initrd=xxx@yyy" which is
> really simpler to parse and to use. No default config files
> use these parameters anyways but not sure for bootloader's
> users...

This code is there precisely because most mips bootloaders use
rd_start/rd_size. It also is IMHO a bad idea to overload the
semantics of initrd= with both file names and memory locations.


Thiemo