Initial kernel command string (Was: Generating elf kernel ?)

[Guillaume Dargaud]

Thanks for helping about the elf issue, I got it running. The problem was that 
I wasn't using the proper file produced by make !


Now I have a strange and probably simple problem that the Initial kernel 
command string is incorrect. I want, and I have set in the .config:
CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyUL0,115200 rw root=/dev/nfs ip=bootp"

But when my kernel boots it uses:
console=ttyUL0 root=/dev/ram

I can check:
strings arch/powerpc/boot/simpleImage.virtex405-ml405.elf | grep console
Vconsole=ttyUL0 root=/dev/ram


Also my previous kernel would wait for 2 seconds at the beginning to allow me 
to change the initial command string via the serial port, but now it just runs 
right through. How can I enable this option ?

On the plus side it boots in .5 seconds !

Here's my .config:
CONFIG_40x=y
CONFIG_4xx=y
CONFIG_PPC_MMU_NOHASH=y
CONFIG_PPC_MMU_NOHASH_32=y
CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE=y
CONFIG_PPC32=y
CONFIG_WORD_SIZE=32
CONFIG_MMU=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ=y
CONFIG_IRQ_PER_CPU=y
CONFIG_NR_IRQS=512
CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_HAVE_LATENCYTOP_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_ILOG2_U32=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_NEXT_BIT=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO=y
CONFIG_PPC=y
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM=y
CONFIG_SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC=y
CONFIG_PPC_OF=y
CONFIG_OF=y
CONFIG_PPC_UDBG_16550=y
CONFIG_AUDIT_ARCH=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG=y
CONFIG_DTC=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_UIMAGE=y
CONFIG_ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE=y
CONFIG_PPC_DCR_NATIVE=y
CONFIG_PPC_DCR_MMIO=y
CONFIG_PPC_DCR=y
CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS=y
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_IACS=2
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DACS=2
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DVCS=0
CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_BROKEN_ON_SMP=y
CONFIG_INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT=32
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=""
CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=32
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_ANON_INODES=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_PRINTK=y
CONFIG_BUG=y
CONFIG_ELF_CORE=y
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
CONFIG_SIGNALFD=y
CONFIG_TIMERFD=y
CONFIG_EVENTFD=y
CONFIG_SHMEM=y
CONFIG_AIO=y
CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_EVENTS=y
CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y
CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS=y
CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK=y
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_HAVE_OPROFILE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS=y
CONFIG_HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT=y
CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES=y
CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES=y
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DMA_ATTRS=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_SLABINFO=y
CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y
CONFIG_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_DEADLINE=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED="cfq"
CONFIG_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK=y
CONFIG_INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK_IRQ=y
CONFIG_INLINE_READ_UNLOCK=y
CONFIG_INLINE_READ_UNLOCK_IRQ=y
CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK=y
CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_UNLOCK_IRQ=y
CONFIG_PPC4xx_GPIO=y
CONFIG_XILINX_VIRTEX=y
CONFIG_XILINX_VIRTEX_GENERIC_BOARD=y
CONFIG_PPC40x_SIMPLE=y
CONFIG_XILINX_VIRTEX_II_PRO=y
CONFIG_XILINX_VIRTEX_4_FX=y
CONFIG_IBM405_ERR77=y
CONFIG_IBM405_ERR51=y
CONFIG_SIMPLE_GPIO=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BUILD=y
CONFIG_HZ_250=y
CONFIG_HZ=250
CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_WALK_MEMORY=y
CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE=y
CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS=32
CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP=y
CONFIG_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM_MANUAL=y
CONFIG_FLATMEM=y
CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP=y
CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED=y
CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS=4
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1
CONFIG_BOUNCE=y
CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=4096
CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES=y
CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER=11
CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE=y
CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y
CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyUL0,115200 rw root=/dev/nfs ip=bootp"
CONFIG_EXTRA_TARGETS=""
CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y
CONFIG_NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE=y
CONFIG_4xx_SOC=y
CONFIG_PPC_PCI_CHOICE=y
CONFIG_ADVANCED_OPTIONS=y
CONFIG_LOWMEM_SIZE=0x30000000
CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xc0000000
CONFIG_KERNEL_START=0xc0000000
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x00000000
CONFIG_TASK_SIZE=0xc0000000
CONFIG_CONSISTENT_SIZE=0x00200000
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP=y
CONFIG_INET_DIAG=y
CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=y
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_TCP_CONG="cubic"
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
CONFIG_STANDALONE=y
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE=""
CONFIG_OF_FLATTREE=y
CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC=y
CONFIG_OF_DEVICE=y
CONFIG_OF_GPIO=y
CONFIG_XILINX_DRIVERS=y
CONFIG_NEED_XILINX_LLDMA=y
CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y
CONFIG_SCSI_MOD=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NETDEV_1000=y
CONFIG_XILINX_LLTEMAC=y
CONFIG_XILINX_LLTEMAC_MARVELL_88E1111_GMII=y
CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
CONFIG_SERIO=y
CONFIG_SERIO_SERPORT=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DEVKMEM=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_UARTLITE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_UARTLITE_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB=y
CONFIG_ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB=y
CONFIG_GPIOLIB=y
CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_GPIO_XILINX=y
CONFIG_SSB_POSSIBLE=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_XILINX_EDK=y
CONFIG_UIO=y
CONFIG_UIO_PDRV=y
CONFIG_UIO_PDRV_GENIRQ=y
CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_NFS_COMMON=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_BITREVERSE=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_LAST_BIT=y
CONFIG_CRC_CCITT=y
CONFIG_CRC32=y
CONFIG_HAS_IOMEM=y
CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT=y
CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y
CONFIG_HAVE_LMB=y
CONFIG_NLATTR=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64=y
CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK=y
CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024
CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y
CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD=y
CONFIG_TRACING_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_KGDB=y
CONFIG_PPC_WERROR=y
CONFIG_PRINT_STACK_DEPTH=64
CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY=""
CONFIG_CRYPTO=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ALGAPI2=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_RNG=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_RNG2=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=y
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ANSI_CPRNG=y

-- 
Guillaume Dargaud
http://www.gdargaud.net/