Kexec command line length
Vivek Goyal
vgoyal at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 15:53:23 EST 2008
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:57:53PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> Ok, I've got a new patch here. In response to Bernhard and Viveks concerns,
> I've added a few checks. Bernhard, thank you for digging into the history of
> the addition of the 2048 byte command line. As I understand what you've posted
> heres what we need to capture:
>
> On X86:
> Boot loader version >= 2.06
> error if cmdline_len > setup_header.cmdline_size
> 2.05 > Boot loader version > 2.06
> warn if cmdline_len > 255
> Boot loader version < 2.05
> error if cmdline_len > 255
>
> on X86_64:
> Boot loader version >= 2.04
> error if cmdline_len > setup_header.cmdline_size
cmdline_size was introduced only in version 2.06. So this will run
into trouble on x86_64 version 2.04 and 2.05, isn't it?
Thanks
Vivek
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