Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol

2007-03-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Bernhard Walle wrote: Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.21, it's not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length of the command line the kernel can understand. The benefit of knowing the length is that users can be warned if the command l

Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol

2007-03-15 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Hello, I really don' t understand why you insist that the boot protocol =2.02 had 255 limit! Please remove this from the description. You want to add size, that's OK, but please don't mess with previous definitions. Boot protocol 2.02 introduced the null terminated string t

Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol

2007-03-15 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello, I really don' t understand why you insist that the boot protocol =2.02 had 255 limit! Please remove this from the description. You want to add size, that's OK, but please don't mess with previous definitions. Boot protocol 2.02 introduced the null terminated string truncated by kernel, w

[PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol

2007-03-15 Thread Bernhard Walle
Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.21, it's not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length of the command line the kernel can understand. The benefit of knowing the length is that users can be warned if the command line size is too long whi