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Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog) |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:08:12 +0200 |
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Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:38 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
>>
>> - Add some run-time argument to the loader to override the command
>> line length. But I do not like this either because it allows
>> breaking the Linux boot protocol.
>
> What exactly happens if we give the kernel a longer cmdline than it
> supports? Does it just truncate, or fail to boot?
It truncates.
> Why not allow users to pass as much as they want, and just warn them if
> it's >255?
I am not sure what the impact is. Linux has a memory map and I assume
the memory after the commandline is used for other things, or might be
overwritten.
--
Marco
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), (continued)
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), Hollis Blanchard, 2006/10/09
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), Marco Gerards, 2006/10/10
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), Jeff Chua, 2006/10/10
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), Markus Laire, 2006/10/10
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), Marco Gerards, 2006/10/10
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), Hollis Blanchard, 2006/10/10
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog),
Marco Gerards <=
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), Jeff Chua, 2006/10/10
- Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/10/13