From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753402AbXCOXkt (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:40:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753416AbXCOXkt (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:40:49 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:37152 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753402AbXCOXks (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:40:48 -0400 Message-ID: <45F9D974.1050309@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:40:36 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alon Bar-Lev CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol References: <20070315210516.GA28998@strauss.suse.de> <9e0cf0bf0703151416r644e5302t9e053eae24d9d398@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e0cf0bf0703151416r644e5302t9e053eae24d9d398@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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