On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 02:03:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 2020-06-22 14:01, Tom Rini wrote: > > > > I'm picky here because, well, there's a whole lot of moving parts in the > > pre-kernel world. In a strict sense, "UEFI" doesn't do anything with > > the kernel but based on hpa's comments I assume that at least the > > in-kernel UEFI stub does what Documentation/x86/booting.rst suggests to > > do and consumes initrd=/file just like "initrd /file" in extlinux.conf, > > etc do. And since the EFI stub is cross-platform, it's worth noting > > this too. > > For what it's worth, normally boot loaders don't strip this from the > kernel command line passed to the kernel, although there might be ones > which do so. In general this is bad practice; it is better to let the > initrd show in /proc/cmdline.
Strongly agree. -- Tom
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