From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964938AbVHaWSE (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:18:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964940AbVHaWSE (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:18:04 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.207]:55006 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964938AbVHaWSC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:18:02 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k0fm7tdmECx5DtuHq5o23JoehSRV4FySHi3Y6JPMpv3vhHI73Q1gn3wVeSODdZBreKDE3AqmhxZXFs+8ZaMngPNGh7D5IDH4LRTiBTcou7wCWDK9zE8VjLS7mhwi3bFhTpynW30ckJyNzU+4jzThDBz2/jDFPxyDuc8RnEKW16Y= Message-ID: <9a8748490508311518320c6aba@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:18:01 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl To: Chris Wedgwood Subject: Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Alon Bar-Lev , Andrew Morton , SYSLINUX@zytor.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050831221424.GA14806@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <4315B668.6030603@gmail.com> <43162148.9040604@zytor.com> <20050831215757.GA10804@taniwha.stupidest.org> <431628D5.1040709@zytor.com> <20050831220717.GA14625@taniwha.stupidest.org> <9a874849050831151230d68d64@mail.gmail.com> <20050831221424.GA14806@taniwha.stupidest.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 9/1/05, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in > > initrd or similar from which to load additional options. > > a file in initrd isn't a good choice; as the initrd is generally a fix > image > > the point is some bootloaders might want to pass quite a bit of state > to the kernel at times (i actually have this for a mip32 target where > i construct a table and pass a pointer to that in, a tad icky but for > lack of options) > Well, it wouldn't have to be initrd specifically. Generally what's needed is *some* way to tell the kernel "please read more options from location ". The interresting bit is what 's supposed to be. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html