Hi, Thanks for the reply. Sorry for not making it clear in the first mail. I wish to add a parameter to kernel command line which will set a value that can be used inside kernel. now legacy system use __setup() call for that. I wish to do this for my arm based board which uses u-boot. I hope the question will be clear now.
Thanks and regards, Raahi On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:34 PM, arshad hussain <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Victor Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Raahi Mehra <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I wish to add a new command line option in my kernel. >>> Can anybody help me with steps to achieve that ?? >>> As I read somewhere that __setup is now obsolete and since i need to use >>> this new option in early boot time > > If you are using GRUB/GRUB2 as your bootloader. > Then one possible option is to let GRUB import that > for you. Have a look at GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, > (for GRUB2) and GRUB1's "kernel" option. > > This should help https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 > > Thanks > > > so I need to use early_param(). >>> So how can I do that ?? >>> Is there any documentation available anywhere that i can use ?? >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Raahi >>> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
