Re: implementation of boot-time kernel parameters

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jun 18 2007 - 12:00:59 EST


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> i'm also aware of an older and (apparently) LILO-specific way to do
> it -- using something like "pas16=" where the appropriate driver code
> has to parse the value string (eg., in drivers/scsi/pas16.c):
>

Utter nonsense. The only reason these older drivers mention "LILO" is
because some of these driver authors thought LILO was the only native
Linux bootloader.

-hpa
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