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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:01:57 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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Subject: Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:29:44PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>I think someone on the SYSLINUX mailing list already sent a patch to
>>akpm to make 512 the default; making it configurable would be a
>>better idea.  Feel free to send your patch through me.
> 
> So we really need this to be a configuration option?  We have too many
> of those already.

Maybe not.  Another option would simply be to bump it up significantly 
(2x isn't really that much.)   4096, maybe.

	-hpa