>>>>> "Jason" == Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com> writes:

  Jason> Other Unices's kernels have a command line?  Wow, that's a new one
  Jason> for me :-)

It allows for passing stuff like video mode and boot device from the
bootloader.  Pretty convenient.  See for example
arch/i386/kernel/setup.c in the Linux source.


  // Marcus