Merge tag 'for-linus-5.15-1' of git://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi

[linux-2.6-microblaze.git] / Documentation / admin-guide / bootconfig.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
index 6a79f2e..a1860fc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ update the boot loader and the kernel image itself as long as the boot
 loader passes the correct initrd file size. If by any chance, the boot
 loader passes a longer size, the kernel fails to find the bootconfig data.
 
-To do this operation, Linux kernel provides "bootconfig" command under
+To do this operation, Linux kernel provides ``bootconfig`` command under
 tools/bootconfig, which allows admin to apply or delete the config file
 to/from initrd image. You can build it by the following command::
 
@@ -196,6 +196,43 @@ To remove the config from the image, you can use -d option as below::
 Then add "bootconfig" on the normal kernel command line to tell the
 kernel to look for the bootconfig at the end of the initrd file.
 
+
+Kernel parameters via Boot Config
+=================================
+
+In addition to the kernel command line, the boot config can be used for
+passing the kernel parameters. All the key-value pairs under ``kernel``
+key will be passed to kernel cmdline directly. Moreover, the key-value
+pairs under ``init`` will be passed to init process via the cmdline.
+The parameters are concatinated with user-given kernel cmdline string
+as the following order, so that the command line parameter can override
+bootconfig parameters (this depends on how the subsystem handles parameters
+but in general, earlier parameter will be overwritten by later one.)::
+
+ [bootconfig params][cmdline params] -- [bootconfig init params][cmdline init params]
+
+Here is an example of the bootconfig file for kernel/init parameters.::
+
+ kernel {
+   root = 01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcd
+ }
+ init {
+  splash
+ }
+
+This will be copied into the kernel cmdline string as the following::
+
+ root="01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcd" -- splash
+
+If user gives some other command line like,::
+
+ ro bootconfig -- quiet
+
+The final kernel cmdline will be the following::
+
+ root="01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcd" ro bootconfig -- splash quiet
+
+
 Config File Limitation
 ======================