Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750765AbVJJMoZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:44:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750774AbVJJMoZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:44:25 -0400 Received: from seqima.han-solo.net ([83.138.65.243]:9709 "EHLO seqima.han-solo.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750765AbVJJMoY (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:44:24 -0400 Message-ID: <434A6220.3000608@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:44:16 +0200 From: Georg Lippold User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050814) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hpa@zytor.com CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit References: <4315B668.6030603@gmail.com> <43162148.9040604@zytor.com> <20050831215757.GA10804@taniwha.stupidest.org> <431628D5.1040709@zytor.com> <431DF9E9.5050102@gmail.com> <431DFEC3.1070309@zytor.com> <431E00C8.3060606@gmail.com> <4345A9F4.7040000@uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <4345A9F4.7040000@uni-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1563 Lines: 48 Hello Peter, my first post didn't get any attention, maybe it was too short. Here's a longer version: hpa@zytor.com wrote on Sept. 6th, 2005: [ wrt. COMMAND_LINE_SIZE=256 in linux/include/asm-i386/setup.h and linux/include/asm-i386/param.h ] >> I would like to push forward the idea to extend the command-line size... > [...] > Already pushed to Andrew. I will follow it up with a patch to extend > the command line, at least to 512. I would like to know the status of this. In linux-2.6.14-rc3 the COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is still 256 chars long. Here's a patch to fix that to 1024. Signed-off-by: Georg Lippold --- linux/include/asm-i386/param.h~ 2005-09-21 23:32:23.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/include/asm-i386/param.h 2005-10-10 14:39:34.000000000 +0200 @@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ #endif #define MAXHOSTNAMELEN 64 /* max length of hostname */ -#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 +#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 1024 #endif --- linux/include/asm-i386/setup.h~ 2005-10-10 14:39:18.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/include/asm-i386/setup.h 2005-10-10 14:39:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ #define MAX_NONPAE_PFN (1 << 20) #define PARAM_SIZE 4096 -#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 +#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 1024 #define OLD_CL_MAGIC_ADDR 0x90020 #define OLD_CL_MAGIC 0xA33F - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/