[PATCH 0/4] kho: rename "scratch" to "bootmem"

[Gregory Price]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 06:26:36PM +0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> From: "Pratyush Yadav (Google)" <pratyush at kernel.org>
> 
> The term "KHO scratch" is vague and overloaded. It does not accurately
> describe what the memory is for. This was discussed previously at [0].
> The conclusion was to rename "KHO scratch" to "KHO bootmem", since this
> is memory passed by the previous kernel for early boot allocations.
> 

This seems like a lot of churn to just rename some stuff, especially for
a term "scratch" which is very much understood to mean "temporary
working memory region" in common computing parlance.

The boot param name change would also cause breakage for existing
systems that update and depend on the scratch parameter.

Is there a non-verbiage reason to justify these changes?  Living with
"scratch" seems better than potentially breaking folks.

~Gregory