On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:32:49PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> My question is now: how do i properly pass the initrd's memory address
> to the kernel? Choices are:
> 1) on the commandline: rd_start=0x...
> 2) a bootparameter block like on i386 or sparc in head.S
> 3) rely on the kernel to identify if a radisk has
> been loaded by a magic number
>
> I'd prefer (1) but it seems none of the other arches does this. Is there
> a reason for that? If not could we just introduce a new kernel
> commandline parameter rd_start which has a memory address as a
> parameter. Ralf, would you let this into the kernel?
I would do 1+3 - Give the address on the command line and let the ramdisk
have a magic + length in the first 2 __u32.
Flo
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