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