From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LWykK-0006eN-Qm for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:58:16 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWykJ-0006eI-4O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:58:15 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWykH-0006e6-C5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:58:14 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33373 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWykH-0006e3-5v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:58:13 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f160.google.com ([209.85.218.160]:48761) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWykG-0000H8-IQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:58:12 -0500 Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so22694bwz.18 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:58:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=X98uBoGdmiXnDhxWtUoY7sAGPBA0CzEifjOUqY439k8=; b=i+zXqnsaNLXpQpzFc42CF/dELarg82CFkU8tFUJLhyK0G2gOEtqKmJMm8TeUK+qJ7+ JR4+sEq5C7ODmXS1EcIav0WzUeu8Nd7ToOChip1VIhVnDmfIM3iq9k3PNA9m2POjsEui b4ExYESNc4aBDe6QpCiq2IK4K4lNstw6OjxC4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=eNMgstlYfjR1xkDgGrzA6pGolOoiL0umEfVJURkV+kB5DveqNMtSdbfbEY+dwLQ1og 7apgtQGsfeIlROwvzTGme8d7CuXdOBbygrOACwJp62H0Cyl6HV5E9HzZJvbH2eI/9Rip YCBBeFrHMOJNAGR/tWEuxRk5r+Vs6xoxd6Clk= Received: by 10.103.171.20 with SMTP id y20mr3027607muo.122.1234295890434; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:58:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?129.132.210.57? (vpn-global-dhcp3-057.ethz.ch [129.132.210.57]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm958991mun.0.2009.02.10.11.58.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:58:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4991DC4D.4060802@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:58:05 +0100 From: phcoder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4991C150.3090504@student.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: <4991C150.3090504@student.ethz.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Long linux kernel command lines X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:58:15 -0000 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel