Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:12:58 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit |
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Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:01:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Maybe not. Another option would simply be to bump it up >>significantly (2x isn't really that much.) 4096, maybe. > > I wonder if we're not at the point where we need something different > to what we have now. The concept of a command-line works for passing > simple state but for more complex things it's too cumbersome.
Well, we have initramfs for the really big stuff. The kernel shouldn't really need that much data, though.
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