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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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On Mon, 25 May 2009 12:23:53 pm Ingo Molnar wrote:
> setup_arch() is one huge function that sets up all architecture
> details at once - but if we split a separate setup_arch_mem() out of
> it, and left the rest in setup_arch (and moved it further down), we
> could remove much of bootmem (especially the ugly uses).

cmdline parsing needs to be available even before mem setup.  I waded
into this earlier and broke almost every arch, but if there's renewed 
enthusiasm I could dig out those patches.

(Search for "arch_get_boot_cmdline()").

Cheers,
Rusty.