Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:46:48 +0200 | | From | Georg Lippold <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit |
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H. Peter Anvin 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.
I think it will take rather long to synchronize all archs. Maybe x86 can fix it fast (it would ease the making of LiveCD's) and then initiate a standardization on lkml? Knoppix has its kernel patch for over a year now and I asked gentoo to do so, too. But they said, I should ask for it here... Until the fix is in the distributions-kernel, probably another month will pass and it obviously needs to be fixed.
Greetings,
Georg
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