On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 03:43:08PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote: > When loading a firmware instead of a kernel, we can still pass on any > *user-provided* command line, as /chosen/bootargs is a generic device tree > feature. We just need to make sure to not pass our mangled-for-Linux > version. > > This allows to run "firmware" images which make use of a command line, > still are not Linux kernels, like kvm-unit-tests. > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> > --- > Hi Will, > > this goes on top of Julien's firmware series (which did not yet appear > on kernel.org?) > This fixes an issue with some kvm-unit-tests support. [1] Does kvm-unit-tests break if we pass the modified command line? I'm wary of passing something different depending on whether the payload is firmware or kernel, because there's a pretty fine line between the two (and the firmware may even just forward the thing on to the kernel it loads). Will
