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

[Jesper Juhl]

On 10/10/05, Georg Lippold <georg.lippold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> my first post didn't get any attention, maybe it was too short.
> Here's a longer version:
>
> hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote on Sept. 6th, 2005:
>
> [ wrt. COMMAND_LINE_SIZE=256 in linux/include/asm-i386/setup.h and
> linux/include/asm-i386/param.h ]
>
> >> I would like to push forward the idea to extend the command-line size...
> > [...]
> > Already pushed to Andrew.  I will follow it up with a patch to extend
> > the command line, at least to 512.
>
> I would like to know the status of this. In linux-2.6.14-rc3 the
> COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is still 256 chars long.
>
> Here's a patch to fix that to 1024.
>

What about the other archs ?

include/asm/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256
include/asm/param.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256
include/asm-m68knommu/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 512
include/asm-powerpc/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE   512
include/asm-sh/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256
include/asm-um/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 4096
include/asm-parisc/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE    1024
include/asm-x86_64/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE    256
include/asm-xtensa/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE    256
include/asm-alpha/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE     256
include/asm-arm26/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 1024
include/asm-h8300/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE     512
include/asm-sparc/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE     256
include/asm-i386/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256
include/asm-i386/param.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256
include/asm-cris/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE      256
include/asm-m32r/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE      (512)
include/asm-ia64/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE      512
include/asm-m68k/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE      CL_SIZE
include/asm-mips/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE      256
include/asm-mips/bootinfo.h:#define CL_SIZE                    
COMMAND_LINE_SIZE
include/asm-s390/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE      896
include/asm-v850/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE      512
include/asm-sh64/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 256
include/asm-arm/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE 1024
include/asm-frv/param.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE       512
include/asm-sparc64/setup.h:#define COMMAND_LINE_SIZE   256

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) ?


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