On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:27:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. >> ------------------ >> From: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> patch 6b6815c6d5d1dc209701d1661a7a0e09a295db2f in mainline. >> Apparently some specific versions of LILO enter the kernel with a >> stack pointer that doesn't match the rest of the segments. Make our >> best attempt at untangling the resulting mess. >> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Just FYI: > > It has been reported that while this patch fixes old LILO, and possibly > some other boot loaders (unknown), it has also broken older versions of > SYSLINUX: they still boot, but the command line is truncated (exactly how > much depends on the BIOS, but typical values are around 130 bytes.) > > This is definitely traceable to a bug in SYSLINUX that was already fixed in > release 3.50 (the current version of SYSLINUX is 3.52). > > I have chosen to leave the patch in mainline, rather than trying yet > another recipe and hope it doesn't break on some other random combination > of bootloaders, since: > > a) SYSLINUX is generally easily updated, compared to other bootloaders; > b) The failure mode is less severe (it still boots.) > > ... however, you may choose to call differently.
I have no objection to keeping this patch in the tree, as it fixes a real problem, and matches the upstream kernel version. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
