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Re: [XenPPC] [PATCH] Option to override firmware bootargs

from [Hollis Blanchard]

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Subject:	Re: [XenPPC] [PATCH] Option to override firmware bootargs
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On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 02:40 -0400, Amos Waterland wrote:
> I recently got a few hours on a Maple development board.  I wanted to
> boot with an nfsroot, but I didn't want to risk changing the bootargs
> saved in the PIBS firmware.  This patch lets Xen choose to override the
> bootargs supplied by the firmware if the user specifies `bootargs=builtin'.

We already have too many ways of passing boot parameters. I'll be taking
a look at GRUB in the near future, so hopefully most of them will become
obsolete.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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