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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

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-18 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-18 11:25 implementation of boot-time kernel parameters Robert P. J. Day
2007-06-18 16:00 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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