From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964932AbVHaWR7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:17:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964938AbVHaWR7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:17:59 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:44765 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964932AbVHaWR6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:17:58 -0400 Message-ID: <43162C7C.8040202@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:17:32 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wedgwood CC: Jesper Juhl , Alon Bar-Lev , Andrew Morton , SYSLINUX@zytor.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit References: <4315B668.6030603@gmail.com> <43162148.9040604@zytor.com> <20050831215757.GA10804@taniwha.stupidest.org> <431628D5.1040709@zytor.com> <20050831220717.GA14625@taniwha.stupidest.org> <9a874849050831151230d68d64@mail.gmail.com> <20050831221424.GA14806@taniwha.stupidest.org> In-Reply-To: <20050831221424.GA14806@taniwha.stupidest.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > >>b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in >>initrd or similar from which to load additional options. > > a file in initrd isn't a good choice; as the initrd is generally a fix > image > > the point is some bootloaders might want to pass quite a bit of state > to the kernel at times (i actually have this for a mip32 target where > i construct a table and pass a pointer to that in, a tad icky but for > lack of options) initrd is a fixed image, but initramfs can be synthesized. -hpa