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The documented behaviour for CMDLINE_EXTEND is that the arguments from the bootloader are appended to the built-in kernel command line. This also matches the option parsing behaviour for the EFI stub and early ID register overrides. Bizarrely, the fdt behaviour is the other way around: appending the built-in command line to the bootloader arguments, resulting in a command-line that doesn't necessarily line-up with the parsing order and definitely doesn't line-up with the documented behaviour. As it turns out, there is a proposal [1] to replace CMDLINE_EXTEND with CMDLINE_PREPEND and CMDLINE_APPEND options which should hopefully make the intended behaviour much clearer. While we wait for those to land, drop CMDLINE_EXTEND for now as there appears to be little enthusiasm for changing the current FDT behaviour. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190319232448.45964-2-danielwa@cisco.com/ Cc: Max Uvarov <muvarov@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAL_JsqJX=TCCs7=gg486r9TN4NYscMTCLNfqJF9crskKPq-bTg@mail.gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210303134927.18975-3-will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.