From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johninsd@san.rr.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:58:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F5DFD4.3090602@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060830200638.504602e2@localhost>
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:56:11 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>> IA64 booting is completely different. I don't think it should
>> be in this patch. At least you would need to check with the IA64
>> maintainer first.
>
> OK... no problem.
>
>> And the other thing is that this will cost memory. Either make
>> it dependend on !CONFIG_SMALL or fix the boot code to save the
>> command line into a kmalloc'ed buffer of the right size and __init
>> the original one
>
> I don't mind doing either... Any preference for one of them? The
> kmalloc approach seems nicer..
>
The kmalloc approach seems to be The Right Thing.
-hpa
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 13:37 [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 14:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 14:28 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 14:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 18:10 ` John Coffman
2006-05-05 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 21:48 ` John Coffman
2006-05-05 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-06 3:57 ` John Coffman
2006-05-06 5:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-06 10:31 ` Alon Bar-Lev
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2006-08-25 23:57 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-27 18:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 18:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27 19:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 19:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27 20:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 21:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 3:28 ` John Coffman
2006-08-28 6:02 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 6:41 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 7:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 12:19 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 18:46 ` Matt Domsch
2006-08-28 19:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 20:12 ` Matt Domsch
2006-08-28 20:29 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 16:49 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 16:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 17:06 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 17:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 17:51 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 19:06 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 19:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 19:23 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 19:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-28 19:24 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 20:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 0:13 ` [PATCH] Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 1:24 ` Petr Vandrovec
2006-08-29 1:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 1:51 ` [PATCH] Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line (rev 2) H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27 19:59 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 22:02 ` [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Alon Bar-Lev
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2006-08-31 17:32 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Bodo Eggert
2006-08-31 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
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