Kexec command line length

Neil Horman nhorman at redhat.com
Fri Jan 25 15:11:10 EST 2008


On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:54:03AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Neil Horman wrote:
> >
> >And then we just point to it inside setup_linux_bootloader_parameters:
> >...
> >if (real_mode->protocol_version >= 0x0202) {
> >                real_mode->cmd_line_ptr = real_mode_base + cmdline_offset;
> >        }
> >....
> >
> >So it seems, given that we already don't put it inside struct bootparam, we
> >should be able to just expand it, yes?
> 
> Yup, you should.
> 
Woo hoo! I understood how this crap works!  Yea!  Thanks Peter :)
Neil

> 	-hpa
> 

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