Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750789AbVJJNVh (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:21:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750794AbVJJNVh (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:21:37 -0400 Received: from qproxy.gmail.com ([72.14.204.197]:15785 "EHLO qproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789AbVJJNVg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:21:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XucoZrygUSsptV1RR2OM8fLi5tVyjhSGSBG1gNqf6sxp8wG5Yrg8RUcBqU5hcCqDttT5zyYkSK+z5wv0vpXjtE1eUsikRJvNQxpxBVy3xrMGNA+pOVP612gmBmvf8mYvhEgqSBc6Yf31BnRrjLAJlfGD8m95694WktBc2DOpF00= Message-ID: <9a8748490510100621x7bc20c42g667cc083d26aaaa2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:21:35 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl To: Georg Lippold Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <434A6220.3000608@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline 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> <434A6220.3000608@gmx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2857 Lines: 66 On 10/10/05, Georg Lippold wrote: > 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. > What about the other archs ? include/asm/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm/param.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-m68knommu/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 512 include/asm-powerpc/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 512 include/asm-sh/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-um/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 4096 include/asm-parisc/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 1024 include/asm-x86_64/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-xtensa/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-alpha/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-arm26/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 1024 include/asm-h8300/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 512 include/asm-sparc/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-i386/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-i386/param.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-cris/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-m32r/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE (512) include/asm-ia64/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 512 include/asm-m68k/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE CL_SIZE include/asm-mips/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-mips/bootinfo.h:#define CL_SIZE COMMAND_LINE_SIZE include/asm-s390/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 896 include/asm-v850/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 512 include/asm-sh64/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 include/asm-arm/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 1024 include/asm-frv/param.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 512 include/asm-sparc64/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256 Would it make sense to make it 1024 everywhere (and maybe move it out of arch specific files and just set it in one central place) ? -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - 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/