From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Georg Lippold <georg.lippold@gmx.de>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:49:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <434A8D70.5060300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434A8CE8.2020404@gmx.de>
Georg Lippold wrote:
>
>>At the very least, though, i386 and x86-64 need to be changed together,
>>since they use the same bootstrap.
>
> I think it will take rather long to synchronize all archs. Maybe x86 can
> fix it fast (it would ease the making of LiveCD's) and then initiate a
> standardization on lkml? Knoppix has its kernel patch for over a year
> now and I asked gentoo to do so, too. But they said, I should ask for it
> here... Until the fix is in the distributions-kernel, probably another
> month will pass and it obviously needs to be fixed.
>
I would suggest updating your patch to include x86-64 and documentation,
and submit it. Other architectures will have to do this as it suits them.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-10 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-08-31 21:29 ` THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31 21:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-31 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31 22:07 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-31 22:12 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-31 22:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-31 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31 22:18 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-31 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-01 8:54 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-08-31 22:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31 22:15 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-09-01 20:48 ` [syslinux] " Peter Jones
2005-09-06 20:19 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-09-06 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-06 20:49 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-06 22:49 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 12:44 ` [PATCH] " Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 13:21 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-10-10 13:32 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 13:57 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 14:07 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 14:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 14:59 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 15:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 16:23 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 17:02 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-10-10 15:46 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 15:49 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-10 17:16 ` [PATCH 1/1] 2.6.14-rc3 x86: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 18:24 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 20:36 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-11 8:32 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-11 16:50 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-11 17:44 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-11 19:21 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-11 19:24 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-11 20:21 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-11 20:04 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-13 20:18 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-11 1:48 ` THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-11 1:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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