Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750727AbVJJOyM (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:54:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750828AbVJJOyM (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:54:12 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:53661 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750727AbVJJOyM (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:54:12 -0400 Message-ID: <434A8082.9060202@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:53:54 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jesper Juhl CC: Georg Lippold , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [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> <434A6220.3000608@gmx.de> <9a8748490510100621x7bc20c42g667cc083d26aaaa2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9a8748490510100621x7bc20c42g667cc083d26aaaa2@mail.gmail.com> 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: 617 Lines: 18 Jesper Juhl wrote: > > 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) ? > I would agree with that, *BUT* the boot protocol on each architecture need to be consistent. At the very least, though, i386 and x86-64 need to be changed together, since they use the same bootstrap. -hpa - 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/