Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:49:04 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit |
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Georg Lippold wrote: > >>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. >
I would suggest updating your patch to include x86-64 and documentation, and submit it. Other architectures will have to do this as it suits them.
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