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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Changing saved_command_line is a modification to all
> architectures... They all modify this variable...
> So, should I submit a patch to all architectures? How can I test this?

Submit a patch set, with the common changes in one patch and the 
architecture-specific bits broken out per architecture; that way the 
individual arch maintainers can look at their piece.  Since it's a 
simple variable rename, it shouldn't be a big deal.

> Also for i386 the code is assembly... So I can modify the code to write
> into a __init buffer and then kmalloc in setup.c.

Don't do that.  Just change the name of the buffer in head.S.

	-hpa

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