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

Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30T17:08:34Z

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:56:11 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> IA64 booting is completely different. I don't think it should
> be in this patch. At least you would need to check with the IA64
> maintainer first.

OK... no problem.

>
> And the other thing is that this will cost memory. Either make
> it dependend on !CONFIG_SMALL or fix the boot code to save the
> command line into a kmalloc'ed buffer of the right size and __init
> the original one

I don't mind doing either... Any preference for one of them? The
kmalloc approach seems nicer..

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.