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Message-ID: <44D29C05.4030408@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:59:49 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
CC: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Userspace visible of 3 include/asm/ headers
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:51:38PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>> On different architectures, we have the following values for
>>> COMMAND_LINE_SIZE:
>>> - 256
>>> - 512
>>> - 896
>>> - 1024
>>> - 4096
>>>
>>> What should be the common value?
>>> 4096?
>>>
>>> And I have a rough memory of some dependencies of COMMAND_LINE_SIZE and
>>> boot loaders. What exactly must be taken care of when increasing
>>> COMMAND_LINE_SIZE?
>>>
>> It's architecture-dependent; it probably should be defined in something
>> like <asm/cmdline.h>.
>
> OK, I did misunderstand you.
> I tought you were saying it should be the same value for all
> architectures.
>
> With the exception of frv (in param.h), COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is in setup.h
> on all architectures.
>
> Do we want to move it to a different header, or simply make param.h a
> userspace header on all architectures?
>
I figure it should be broken out into a separate header, rather than
exporting all of setup.h.
-hpa
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