Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750746AbWEFFOM (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 01:14:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751224AbWEFFOM (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 01:14:12 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:13198 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746AbWEFFOM (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 May 2006 01:14:12 -0400 Message-ID: <445C301E.6060509@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 22:11:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Coffman CC: Alon Bar-Lev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Barry K. Nathan" , Adrian Bunk , tony.luck@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][TAKE 4] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit References: <445B5524.2090001@gmail.com> <445B5C92.5070401@zytor.com> <445B610A.7020009@gmail.com> <445B62AC.90600@zytor.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20060505110517.036df928@pop-server.san.rr.com> <445B96D2.9070301@zytor.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20060505144445.03642988@pop-server.san.rr.com> <445BCA33.30903@zytor.com> <6.2.3.4.0.20060505204729.036dfdf8@pop-server.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060505204729.036dfdf8@pop-server.san.rr.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: 1089 Lines: 30 John Coffman wrote: > At 02:57 PM Friday 5/5/2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Okay, let me ask this: > >> If the *kernel* limit is modified, but the LILO limit is not, what >> will happen? This is the real crux of the matter. > > The length of the kernel command line will be limited by the size of the > boot loader buffer. LILO always inserts a NUL terminator. > > --John > > P.S. The LILO command line buffer has always been 1 sector (512 bytes); > however, only the first half is actually used for the command line. No > kernel can do any harm by setting "boot_cmdline[511] = 0;" for any > version of LILO back to version 20 (and probably before). > Okay... **DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY ACTUAL EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY???**, and if so, **WHAT ARE THE DETAILS**? All I've heard so far is hearsay. "X said that Y had said..." -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/