Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932109AbWIDImd (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 04:42:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751179AbWIDImc (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 04:42:32 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.230]:6091 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751157AbWIDImb (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 04:42:31 -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=qcFNrK4o3iD6X+1tfvSoqoENOBboNbJr/PmSSMtYpi8u3fCM7lfXij3JQ8hoTNLgmnovS9j8HaInI8ttJAY/5uKs0cLnpJK6l2HNDY9T7sSRobMKPtm+XhLJTuP9HxUSALWZBWw8i3Q57KedLwo1s+Hc9WiMuC0oG1StPgf8JK8= Message-ID: <9e0cf0bf0609040142y795f9252sd7a8ca1ce8fdde75@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:42:30 +0300 From: "Alon Bar-Lev" To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line Cc: "Nigel Cunningham" , "Paul Mackerras" , "Andi Kleen" , "Matt Domsch" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johninsd@san.rr.com, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, Riley@williams.name, trini@kernel.crashing.org, davem@davemloft.net, ecd@brainaid.de, jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz, anton@samba.org, wli@holomorphy.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, rc@rc0.org.uk, spyro@f2s.com, rth@twiddle.net, avr32@atmel.com, hskinnemoen@atmel.com, starvik@axis.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, matthew@wil.cx, grundler@parisc-linux.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp, chris@zankel.net In-Reply-To: <1157358727.5078.11.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200609040050.13410.alon.barlev@gmail.com> <17659.26177.846522.226410@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1157338220.10336.147.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <1157358727.5078.11.camel@localhost> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 20 On 9/4/06, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > The reason is our initial address space layout for the very first kernel > images. Now it is hard to changed because the different ipl tools rely > on the layout. We choose to add a few more bytes than 256 because on > s390 we potentially have many devices. The dasd= parameter can really be > big. Thanks for the explanation... I've been curios as well :) Can you please check if this patch is OK in s390 environment? Best Regards, Alon Bar-Lev. -- VGER BF report: H 0 - 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/