Re: [PATCH] Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 10/10/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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