Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:33:01 -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: > > Changing saved_command_line is a modification to all > architectures... They all modify this variable... > So, should I submit a patch to all architectures? How can I test this? >
Submit a patch set, with the common changes in one patch and the architecture-specific bits broken out per architecture; that way the individual arch maintainers can look at their piece. Since it's a simple variable rename, it shouldn't be a big deal.
> Also for i386 the code is assembly... So I can modify the code to write > into a __init buffer and then kmalloc in setup.c.
Don't do that. Just change the name of the buffer in head.S.
-hpa
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