Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86 support for the initrd= command line option

[ron minnich]

sounds good, I'm inclined to want to mention only initrdmem= in
Documentation? or just say initrd is discouraged or deprecated?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:41 PM <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On March 23, 2020 12:40:15 PM PDT, ron minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I'm wondering -- adding initrdmem= is easy, do you think we'll ever be
> >able to end uses of initrd= in the ARM and MIPS world? Is it ok to
> >have these two identical command line parameters? I'm guessing just
> >changing initrd= would be hard.
> >
> >Do we just accept initrd= from this day forward, as well as initrdmem=?
> >
> >On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:06 PM <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On March 23, 2020 11:54:28 AM PDT, ron minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxxx>
> >wrote:
> >> >On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 11:19 AM <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> Pointing to any number of memory chunks via setup_data works and
> >> >doesn't need to be exposed to the user, but I guess the above is
> >> >reasonable.
> >> >
> >> >so, good to go?
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> *However*, I would also suggest adding "initrdmem=" across
> >> >architectures that doesn't have the ambiguity.
> >> >
> >> >agreed. I can look at doing that next.
> >> >
> >> >ron
> >>
> >> I would prefer if we could put both into the same patchset.
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>
> Yes, accept both.
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