From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: implementation of boot-time kernel parameters
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:00:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4676AC2D.1050107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706180709390.14098@localhost.localdomain>
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> i'm also aware of an older and (apparently) LILO-specific way to do
> it -- using something like "pas16=" where the appropriate driver code
> has to parse the value string (eg., in drivers/scsi/pas16.c):
>
Utter nonsense. The only reason these older drivers mention "LILO" is
because some of these driver authors thought LILO was the only native
Linux bootloader.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-18 16:00 UTC|newest]
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2007-06-18 11:25 implementation of boot-time kernel parameters Robert P. J. Day
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