RE: 2.3.34-pre1: chopped boot command line problem

nathan.zook@amd.com
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:48:50 -0600

I don't know. I never explicitly tested command lines >255 bytes, mostly
because I didn't know enough about kernel options to fill out a line. :-)))

Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 2:39 PM
To: Zook, Nathan
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk; orc@pell.portland.or.us; tigran@sco.COM;
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: 2.3.34-pre1: chopped boot command line problem

> I considered the problem bad enough that in my code, I strip all of the
mem=
> and kmem= commands as the data is being moved into the (historically)
> 256-byte buffer used by the kernel.

Ok. If the boot loaders are already using 2K then thats less of a problem
since
the hardest part has already been dealt with

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