From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping)
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:32:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F1F356.5030105@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608272116.23498.ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Just increasing that constant caused various lilo setups to not boot
> anymore. I don't know who is actually to blame, just wanting to
> point out that this "obvious" patch isn't actually that obvious.
>
How would that even be possible (unless you recompiled LILO with the new
headers)? There would be no difference in the memory image at the point
LILO hands off to the kernel.
In order to reproduce this we need some details about your "various LILO
setups", or this will remain as a source of cargo cult programming.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-27 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 13:37 [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 14:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 14:28 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 14:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 18:10 ` John Coffman
2006-05-05 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-05 21:48 ` John Coffman
2006-05-05 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-06 3:57 ` John Coffman
2006-05-06 5:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-06 10:31 ` Alon Bar-Lev
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2006-08-25 23:57 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-27 18:28 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 18:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27 19:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 19:32 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-27 20:54 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-27 21:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 3:28 ` John Coffman
2006-08-28 6:02 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 6:41 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 7:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 12:19 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 18:46 ` Matt Domsch
2006-08-28 19:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 20:12 ` Matt Domsch
2006-08-28 20:29 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 16:49 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 16:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 17:06 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 17:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 17:51 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 18:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 19:06 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-30 19:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 19:23 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-30 19:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-30 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-28 19:24 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-08-28 20:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 0:13 ` [PATCH] Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 1:24 ` Petr Vandrovec
2006-08-29 1:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-29 1:51 ` [PATCH] Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line (rev 2) H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-27 19:59 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Alon Bar-Lev
2006-05-05 22:02 ` [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Alon Bar-Lev
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2006-08-31 17:32 ` [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) Bodo Eggert
2006-08-31 17:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
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