From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping)
Date: 27 Aug 2006 20:28:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73irkedod2.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EF8E7D.5060905@gmail.com>
Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> writes:
> Extending the kernel parameters to a 2048 bytes for
> boot protocol >=2.02 of i386, ia64 and x86_64 architectures for
> linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2.
>
> Current implementation allows the kernel to receive up to
> 255 characters from the bootloader. In current environment,
> the command-line is used in order to specify many values,
> including suspend/resume, module arguments, splash, initramfs
> and more. 255 characters are not enough anymore.
The last time I tried this on x86-64 lilo on systems that used EDD broke.
EDD uses part of the bootup page too. So most likely it's not that simple.
And please don't shout your subjects.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-27 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 13:37 [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 14:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 14:28 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 14:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 18:10 ` John Coffman
2006-05-05 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 21:48 ` John Coffman
2006-05-05 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-06 3:57 ` John Coffman
2006-05-06 5:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-06 10:31 ` Alon Bar-Lev
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2006-08-25 23:57 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-27 18:28 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-27 18:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27 19:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 19:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27 20:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 21:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 3:28 ` John Coffman
2006-08-28 6:02 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 6:41 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 7:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 12:19 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 18:46 ` Matt Domsch
2006-08-28 19:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 20:12 ` Matt Domsch
2006-08-28 20:29 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 16:49 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 16:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 17:06 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 17:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 17:51 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 19:06 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 19:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 19:23 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 19:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 19:24 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 20:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 0:13 ` [PATCH] Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 1:24 ` Petr Vandrovec
2006-08-29 1:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 1:51 ` [PATCH] Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line (rev 2) H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27 19:59 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 22:02 ` [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Alon Bar-Lev
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2006-08-31 17:32 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Bodo Eggert
2006-08-31 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
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