Re: how to build in kernel boot options?

["Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/6/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> > On 4/6/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > On 4/6/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >   maybe i'm just being clueless, but isn't there a kernel config
> > > > > option to include arbitrary boot-time command-line options?  i could
> > > > > *swear* i remember something like that from the 2.4 kernel -- things
> > > > > like being able to set nfsroot and so on.
> > > >
> > > > "Compiled-in Kernel Boot Parameter" under "Kernel hacking"
> > >
> > > i can see that, but only under the arch m68knommu.
> >
> > a quick check ... different ports have it in different places
> >
> > also check under the processor-specific page
>
> no offense, mike, but it doesn't help me much to simply suggest other
> places i can look -- i can handle that myself.  does anyone know one
> way or the other if there is, for x86, a kernel config option for
> built-in kernel options?

Not looking too closely, but are you maybe thinking of CONFIG_CMDLINE?
I don't see i386 having such support, at least not visible in
menuconfig. It seems to be common in embedded architectures, though.

Thanks,
Nish

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