Hi Ard,
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:24 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Loading an initrd passed via the kernel command line is deprecated: it
> is limited to files that reside in the same volume as the one the kernel
> itself was loaded from, and we have more flexible ways to achieve the
> same. So make it configurable so new architectures can decide not to
> enable it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch, which is now commit cf6b83664895a5c7
("efi/libstub: Make initrd file loader configurable")!
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
> @@ -124,6 +124,17 @@ config EFI_ARMSTUB_DTB_LOADER
> functionality for bootloaders that do not have such support
> this option is necessary.
>
> +config EFI_GENERIC_STUB_INITRD_CMDLINE_LOADER
> + bool "Enable the command line initrd loader"
> + depends on EFI_GENERIC_STUB
> + default y
> + help
> + Select this config option to add support for the initrd= command
> + line parameter, allowing an initrd that resides on the same volume
> + as the kernel image to be loaded into memory.
> +
> + This method is deprecated.
So why the default y?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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