Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:59:30 +0200 | From | Alon Bar-Lev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit |
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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...
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