Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10T15:49:29Z

Georg Lippold wrote:
>
>>At the very least, though, i386 and x86-64 need to be changed together,
>>since they use the same bootstrap.
>
> I think it will take rather long to synchronize all archs. Maybe x86 can
> fix it fast (it would ease the making of LiveCD's) and then initiate a
> standardization on lkml? Knoppix has its kernel patch for over a year
> now and I asked gentoo to do so, too. But they said, I should ask for it
> here... Until the fix is in the distributions-kernel, probably another
> month will pass and it obviously needs to be fixed.
>

I would suggest updating your patch to include x86-64 and documentation,
and submit it. Other architectures will have to do this as it suits them.

-hpa