From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:40:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F9D974.1050309@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e0cf0bf0703151416r644e5302t9e053eae24d9d398@mail.gmail.com>
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I really don' t understand why you insist that the boot protocol
>> =2.02 had 255 limit!
> Please remove this from the description.
> You want to add size, that's OK, but please don't mess with previous
> definitions.
> Boot protocol 2.02 introduced the null terminated string truncated by
> kernel, which can be at any size.
>
Well, except for a very brief window, the limit *was* 255. If the boot
loader wants to verify nontruncation, this is a valid concern.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-15 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-15 21:05 [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol Bernhard Walle
2007-03-15 21:16 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2007-03-15 23:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-03-16 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
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