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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-09-19 17:44:56 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-09-20 16:09:48 +1000
commit817c21ad9a1f00926f080265493923ada3458c63 (patch)
tree84733af08a403e6f1c1846a2e9a21cf49276660d /arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
parentpowerpc/powernv: Add OPAL takeover from PowerVM (diff)
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powerpc/powernv: Get kernel command line accross OPAL takeover
We stash it in boot_command_line which isn't in BSS and so won't be overwritten. We then use that as a default cmd_line before we walk the device-tree. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 174e1e96175e..7b90c564e932 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -712,6 +712,13 @@ void __init early_init_devtree(void *params)
of_scan_flat_dt(early_init_dt_scan_phyp_dump, NULL);
#endif
+ /* Pre-initialize the cmd_line with the content of boot_commmand_line,
+ * which will be empty except when the content of the variable has
+ * been overriden by a bootloading mechanism. This happens typically
+ * with HAL takeover
+ */
+ strlcpy(cmd_line, boot_command_line, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
+
/* Retrieve various informations from the /chosen node of the
* device-tree, including the platform type, initrd location and
* size, TCE reserve, and more ...