From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753249AbVHHCOU (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:14:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753250AbVHHCOU (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:14:20 -0400 Received: from www.tuxrocks.com ([64.62.190.123]:57357 "EHLO tuxrocks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753249AbVHHCOU (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 22:14:20 -0400 Message-ID: <42F6BFAB.4010807@tuxrocks.com> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:12:59 -0600 From: Frank Sorenson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: [Patch] i386: build.c: Write out larger system size to bootsector X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This patch allows build.c to write out the full system size to the bootsector for system sizes larger than about 1 MB (1048560 bytes) by using another byte (a 4th byte would allow system sizes larger than 268 MB). Signed-off-by: Frank Sorenson - --- a/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c 2005-08-07 18:08:29.000000000 -0600 +++ b/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c 2005-08-07 18:09:51.000000000 -0600 @@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ die("Output: seek failed"); buf[0] = (sys_size & 0xff); buf[1] = ((sys_size >> 8) & 0xff); - - if (write(1, buf, 2) != 2) + buf[2] = ((sys_size >> 16) & 0xff); + if (write(1, buf, 3) != 3) die("Write of image length failed"); return 0; /* Everything is OK */ Frank - -- Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK Systems Manager, Computer Science Department Brigham Young University frank@tuxrocks.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC9r+raI0dwg4A47wRAtXCAKCm3f2Afx/SC5H+6HJz2JzM9cA1ZQCgjMbg qt7Rmo23aWfG1cvsZrcsQvA= =0iHd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----