From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: alon.barlev@gmail.com, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:42:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F9E806.2010405@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070315210516.GA28998@strauss.suse.de>
Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.21,
> it's not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length
> of the command line the kernel can understand. The benefit of knowing the
> length is that users can be warned if the command line size is too long which
> prevents surprise if things don't work after bootup.
>
> This patch updates the boot protocol to contain a field called
> "cmdline_size" that contain the length of the command line (excluding
> the terminating zero).
>
> The patch also adds missing fields (of protocol version 2.05) to the x86_64
> setup code.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
> Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-16 0:42 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
2007-03-16 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=45F9E806.2010405@zytor.com \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=alon.barlev@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.