Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:58:28 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) |
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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.
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