[PATCH RESEND 28/62] init: alpha, arc, arm, arm64, csky, m68k, microblaze, mips, nios2, openrisc, parisc, powerpc, s390, sh, sparc, um, x86, xtensa: rename initrd_{start,end} to virt_external_initramfs_{start,end}

Askar Safin safinaskar at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 22:19:03 AEDT 2025


On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de> wrote:
> Ooh, now I see it - you have virtual and physical initramfs address things. We
> usually call those "va" and "pa". So
>
> initramfs_{va,pa}_{start,end}

Okay, I will call external_initramfs_{va,pa}_{start,end}
(after I will remove initrd, which will happen after a year)

"external" means "bootloader-supplied" as opposed to builtin initramfs.

-- 
Askar Safin


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