Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750844AbVJJPEY (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:04:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750845AbVJJPEY (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:04:24 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:6117 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750840AbVJJPEX (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:04:23 -0400 Message-ID: <434A82D7.7020605@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:03:51 -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: Alon Bar-Lev CC: Jesper Juhl , 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> <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> <434A8082.9060202@zytor.com> <9e0cf0bf0510100759v722bbc5ay970b1aa99efba898@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e0cf0bf0510100759v722bbc5ay970b1aa99efba898@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: 888 Lines: 28 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 10/10/05, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>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. > > Great! > Will you update the documentation of all? > After that I can try to convince bootloaders fix their code... > You have a funny way of assigning people action items. -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/