Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline

[Hollis Blanchard]

On May 10, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:

> Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, 
> > overriding
> > the defaults. Example:
> >     boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar
>
> This looks like a nice feature to me, especially for development.  I
> wonder what others think of it.

Yeah, I consider it absolutely required, so that when users say "it 
crashed before I could do anything" we can just ask them to boot with 
"debug=all".

> > Comments?
>
> Where is the changelog entry? ;)

I was looking for other comments first. I guess you have no problem 
with it...

2005-05-10  Hollis Blanchard  <address@hidden>

        * boot/powerpc/ieee1275/cmain.c (cmain): Remove code to parse
        /chosen/bootargs.
        * kern/powerpc/ieee1275/init.c (grub_machine_init): Parse
        /chosen/bootargs as "variable=value" pairs.

-Hollis