[parisc-linux] Progress

[John David Anglin]

> = Honestly, I don't think we have a way yet to use the command line the HPUX
> = boot loader passes us (which I was told uses the ANSI C way of passing
> = arguments, i.e. argument count in GR26, pointer to NULL-terminated array
> = of pointers to NULL-terminated arrays of strings in GR25).  Anyone up to
> = write some glue code that puts that back together into a simple long string
> = Linux's commandline splitting code can spli again ?
> = 
> 
> I wrote that glue a while back -- it's in real/setup.c and is #if-0-ed.
> Unfortunately the strings are stored
> in low-ish physical RAM which is overwritten when the our kernel is
> loaded.  If we want the hpux command line badly enough, we'll have
> to load the kernel at a higher physical location.  It could then
> be copied to 0x10000 after we collect the command line.  
> 
> One could hard-code a command line in real/setup.c temporarily...

How much higher do you think is necessary?  Hpux seems to use 0x11000.

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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc.ca
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