From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758765AbYC0JKG (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:10:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755800AbYC0JJp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:09:45 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:35326 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755597AbYC0JJp (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:09:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:09:25 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Paul Jackson Cc: ying.huang@intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/4] x86_64 boot: Add linked listof struct setup_data to boot protocol Message-ID: <20080327090925.GC30918@elte.hu> References: <1206601743.3067.20.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <20080327083221.GD15626@elte.hu> <20080327040216.99dcde7b.pj@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080327040216.99dcde7b.pj@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Paul Jackson wrote: > In the file arch/x86/boot/main.c, see the line: > > BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof boot_params != 4096); oh well, indeed. I was hoping for some simple short-term solution as well that could go into 2.6.25. ( in case anyone knows about any other stupidly shortsighted limit we have in arch/x86 that is not being worked on yet, please tell us _before_ we hit it with real hardware ... ) Ingo