From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964923AbVHaWPk (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:15:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964925AbVHaWPj (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:15:39 -0400 Received: from ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.74]:38581 "EHLO ylpvm43.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964923AbVHaWPi (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:15:38 -0400 X-ORBL: [67.124.117.85] Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:15:35 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: 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: <20050831221535.GB14806@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> <43162B6A.2010806@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43162B6A.2010806@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:12:58PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Well, we have initramfs for the really big stuff. The kernel > shouldn't really need that much data, though. except the initrd image is in many cases fairly fixed; right now i have options i pass into initramfs by passing arguments on the command line which initrd them reads, parses and uses that to grab a file from the network it's a tad disconnected to have to do this though