Please strip default cmdline

Bug #799651 reported by Loïc Minier
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linux-linaro-vexpress (Ubuntu)
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John Rigby

Bug Description

Hi

When starting the vexpress kernel under QEMU with no -append or an empty -append argument, the kernel falls back to the configured default cmdline:
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.1.69.3:/work/nfsroot ip=dhcp console=ttyAMA0 mem=128M

this specific line is hurtful in multiple ways:
* depends on the network when it might not be available; this hardcoded IP address looks really dangerous
* forces console=ttyAMA0 when framebuffer might be available (tty1 or tty0 alias)
* limits RAM to 128M while 1024M might be available

I think none of this should be in the default kernel cmdline, at least not in the Ubuntu binaries.

Would you mind stripping them off the config?

Thanks!

Loïc Minier (lool)
Changed in linux-linaro-vexpress (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → John Rigby (jcrigby)
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