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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:56:11 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > IA64 booting is completely different. I don't think it should 
> > be in this patch. At least you would need to check with the IA64
> > maintainer first.
>
> OK... no problem.
>
> > And the other thing is that this will cost memory. Either make
> > it dependend on !CONFIG_SMALL or fix the boot code to save the 
> > command line into a kmalloc'ed buffer of the right size and __init 
> > the original one
>
> I don't mind doing either... Any preference for one of them? The
> kmalloc approach seems nicer..

The kmalloc approach seems to be The Right Thing.

	-hpa
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