> To make the bootstrap decide which ones are overrides > and which are additions is going to be ugly. I'm sure we
The "bootstrap" does not decide that. > could make it very complicated, but we decided to simply > append the parameters from the IPL statement to what is Yes, a simple "append" is probably the best choice. That is what LILO does, and it seems to work. You get three places where the parm line is defined: initial (gen by LILO), "appened" in any LILO stanza, and then whatever is entered at boot time. > in the NSS already. Main reason to combine both is that > the 64 byte from the IPL statement is a bit small. Yes, small. But better than what we have now, which is nothing. > It's then up to the particular code in the kernel when > the same parameter occurs twice. Yes, just as things are in the LILO case. May not be perfect, but works well for PCs and would work well here.
