From: Georg Lippold <georg.lippold@gmx.de>
To: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:57:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <434A7363.40002@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e0cf0bf0510100632i79b4b4cdk24935724d6ab1ed7@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 1. Why don't you put this variable at config, and allow the user to
> specify the length during configuration? I have a patch that does just
> that.
If you'd post it, it would probably get more attention :)
> 2. THE MOST IMPORTANT task is to update the documentation at
> i386/boot.txt so that it will state that boot protocol 2.02+ field
> cmd_line_ptr should not be truncated and can be up to 4K bytes.
> Also fix "The kernel command line is null-terminated string up to 255
> characters long,..." this is good for the old boot protocol, but not
> for the 2.02+ protocol.
>
> Without this fix the bootloaders (Lilo, Grub) will not fix their
> code... So that users will still will not be able to use > 256 command
> line.
syslinux >=3.09 supports 512 chars.
Greetings,
Georg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-10 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2005-08-31 21:29 ` THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31 21:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-31 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31 22:07 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-31 22:12 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-31 22:14 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-08-31 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31 22:18 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-31 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-01 8:54 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-08-31 22:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-31 22:15 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-09-01 20:48 ` [syslinux] " Peter Jones
2005-09-06 20:19 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-09-06 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-09-06 20:49 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-06 22:49 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 12:44 ` [PATCH] " Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 13:21 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-10-10 13:32 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 13:57 ` Georg Lippold [this message]
2005-10-10 14:07 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 14:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 14:59 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 15:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 16:23 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 17:02 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-10-10 15:46 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 15:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-10 17:16 ` [PATCH 1/1] 2.6.14-rc3 x86: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE Georg Lippold
2005-10-10 18:24 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-10 20:36 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-11 8:32 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-11 16:50 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-11 17:44 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-11 19:21 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-11 19:24 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-11 20:21 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-11 20:04 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2005-10-13 20:18 ` Georg Lippold
2005-10-11 1:48 ` THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-11 1:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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