On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:21:22 +0200, Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Maybe you can add something like "initrdmem=xxx@yyy", keeping
> > "rd_start" and "rd_size" for the backward compatibility. Just a
> > thought.
>
> Well that what I was planning when writing this patch but I didn't.
> I think that we will end up with two different semantics and the
> old one never replaced by the new one... Except if we mark them as
> deprecated by showing a warning at boot. What do you think ?
While the kernel command line is very limited resource (only 256
chars), I prefer a single short option to specify initrd range, if
available.
But nothing wrong with rd_start and rd_size, and it seems there are
some boot loader expected them already, so removing them would not be
good (especially without some grace period).
I don't care if there were two way to specify initrd range. It would
be somewhat redundant, but that is usual on "Backword compatibility"
issue, isn't it? ;-)
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Atsushi Nemoto
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