linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot protocol

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:40:36 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [REPOST] x86_64, i386: Add command line length to boot
 protocol

Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I really don' t understand why you insist that the boot protocol
>> =2.02 had 255 limit!
> Please remove this from the description.
> You want to add size, that's OK, but please don't mess with previous
> definitions.
> Boot protocol 2.02 introduced the null terminated string truncated by
> kernel, which can be at any size.
> 

Well, except for a very brief window, the limit *was* 255.  If the boot 
loader wants to verify nontruncation, this is a valid concern.

	-hpa
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