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

H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10T15:04:24Z

Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 10/10/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
>>Jesper Juhl wrote:
>>
>>>Would it make sense to make it 1024 everywhere (and maybe move it out
>>>of arch specific files and just set it in one central place) ?
>>>
>>
>>I would agree with that, *BUT* the boot protocol on each architecture
>>need to be consistent.
>>
>>At the very least, though, i386 and x86-64 need to be changed together,
>>since they use the same bootstrap.
>
> Great!
> Will you update the documentation of all?
> After that I can try to convince bootloaders fix their code...
>

You have a funny way of assigning people action items.

-hpa