Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec ppc64: fix misaligned cmdline

From: Michael Neuling <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:42:16 +1000

> While this appears to fix the stated problem, did you explore my
> suggestion of deleting and creating the property like we do for
> the initrd base and size?

Yeah, but it didn't seem "hapazard" enough for kexec. :-)

> Deleting and recreating should also handle the case of no boot-args in
> the original /chosen sub-tree (when the bootloader didn't (need to)
> supply a command line).

Yeah, we're screwed when the first boot has no bootargs.

Let me get the policy right.  We blow away the old command line except
for the "root=blah" item.  Correct?

Mikey