From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964931AbVHaWOf (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:14:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964929AbVHaWOf (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:14:35 -0400 Received: from ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.74]:43186 "EHLO ylpvm43.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964923AbVHaWOe (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:14:34 -0400 X-ORBL: [67.124.117.85] Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:14:24 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Jesper Juhl Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Alon Bar-Lev , Andrew Morton , SYSLINUX@zytor.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit Message-ID: <20050831221424.GA14806@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <4315B668.6030603@gmail.com> <43162148.9040604@zytor.com> <20050831215757.GA10804@taniwha.stupidest.org> <431628D5.1040709@zytor.com> <20050831220717.GA14625@taniwha.stupidest.org> <9a874849050831151230d68d64@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9a874849050831151230d68d64@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:12:00AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > b) add a new boot option telling the kernel the name of some file in > initrd or similar from which to load additional options. a file in initrd isn't a good choice; as the initrd is generally a fix image the point is some bootloaders might want to pass quite a bit of state to the kernel at times (i actually have this for a mip32 target where i construct a table and pass a pointer to that in, a tad icky but for lack of options)