[Trac #300] Review kernel cmdline

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#300: Review kernel cmdline
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 Reporter:  wmb at firmworks.com  |        Owner:  blizzard
     Type:  task               |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal             |    Milestone:  BTest-2 
Component:  distro             |   Resolution:          
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Comment (by dilinger):

 Current /proc/cmdline on jffs2 images:

 {{{
 ro root=mtd0 rootfstype=jffs2 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0
 fbcon=font:SUN12x22 pci=nobios video=gxfb:1024x768-16
 }}}

 Serial console stuff can almost certainly be removed; it's useless on qemu
 and btest boards, and atest has VGA output.  People who explicitly need
 serial console can specify it manually when booting (just like we've had
 to do for every single Linux distro for years).

 I would think rootfstype would be automatically detected, or is it
 something jffs2 specifically needs?  Ext3 certainly doesn't need it.

 We should play w/ framebuffer stuff to see what is actually necessary
 nowdays, and what isn't.  Especially once we get usplash (or equivalent)
 going, and console colors that work better w/ OFW colors and the splash
 colors.

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