linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line

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Message-ID: <9e0cf0bf0609040142y795f9252sd7a8ca1ce8fdde75@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:42:30 +0300
From:	"Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@...il.com>
To:	schwidefsky@...ibm.com
Cc:	"Nigel Cunningham" <ncunningham@...uxmail.org>,
	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@...ba.org>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line

On 9/4/06, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com> wrote:
> The reason is our initial address space layout for the very first kernel
> images. Now it is hard to changed because the different ipl tools rely
> on the layout. We choose to add a few more bytes than 256 because on
> s390 we potentially have many devices. The dasd= parameter can really be
> big.

Thanks for the explanation... I've been curios as well :)
Can you please check if this patch is OK in s390 environment?

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.

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