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From: phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Long linux kernel command lines
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:58:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4991DC4D.4060802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4991C150.3090504@student.ethz.ch>

Hello!
I don't know the linux booting protocol in details but it looks like you 
patch replaces one arbitrary limit (256) by another (4096). Is there any 
way of avoiding any arbitrary limit at all wothout modyfiing boot protocol?
Thanks
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Jan Alsenz wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I just noticed, that the pc linux loader (loader/i386/pc/linux.c) always
> truncates the kernel command line to less than 256 characters.
> Well since I needed a longer command line, I fixed this problem.
> 
> I found a patch on this list from last year (
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-05/msg00005.html ),
> which apparently was lost in some other discussion.
> I didn't use it, because I think my version works better with older kernels.
> 
> I tested this on my machine and it worked without a problem with a
> 2.6.27 kernel.
> 
> It would be great if you could add this (or something like it), so I can
> switch to the official version again.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-10 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-10 18:02 [PATCH] Long linux kernel command lines Jan Alsenz
2009-02-10 19:58 ` phcoder [this message]
2009-02-10 20:09   ` Jan Alsenz
2009-02-11 12:48 ` Jan Alsenz
2009-02-21 14:57 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-21 15:34   ` Jan Alsenz
2009-04-10 23:37     ` phcoder

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