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SubjectRe: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping)
Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> 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..
>

The kmalloc approach seems to be The Right Thing.

-hpa
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