Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 07:02:56PM +0100, Jan Alsenz wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I just noticed, that the pc linux loader (loader/i386/pc/linux.c) always >> truncates the kernel command line to less than 256 characters. >> Well since I needed a longer command line, I fixed this problem. > > Hi, > > Thanks for your effort, but note that this can't be changed carelessly. It's > possible we have this limit for backward compatibility. > > If newer versions of Linux allow a longer cmdline, our code should check for > that instead.
If you look at the patch I send on Feb 11, I think it does all the necessary checks. > Also, would be cool if you can check whether loader/i386/linux.c also has > this problem. Well, it uses a fixed 4k command-line area. But I don't know, if this is a problem there. Greets, Jan
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