Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 early_param mem= fix

[Rusty Russell]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 04:55 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 07 August 2006 04:54, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 18:22 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > but I wonder how many other early_param
> > > "option=" args are wrong (e.g. "memmap=" in the same file): x86_64
> > > shows many such, i386 shows only one, I've not followed it up further.
> > 
> > Thanks Hugh.
> > 
> > Andrew, here's that i386 fix:
> 
> I had already fixed that one and the x86-64 ones.
> 
> But it still doesn't boot on x86-64 - gets into an endless loop
> at boot. I'm suspecting the code can't deal with duplicated
> prefixes.

Works fine here:

early_param("param", early_param1);
early_param("param2", early_param2);

I'm building an x86_64 kernel, and hoping it runs under qemu.  If so,
I'll find the problem...

Thanks,
Rusty.
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