Re: how to increase commandline size (patch + changelog)

[Jeff Chua]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Marco Gerards wrote:

> Isn't it possible to use the kernel binary to determine this?  For
> example, is the maximum commandline size stored somewhere?  Perhaps,
> we can determine it by looking at some version field?  According to
> the documentation it is has a maximum length of 255 bytes for every
> Linux version:

But, user can overwrite this to expand the commandline. It's documented, 
and tested. See http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg06193.html

> I don't want the loader to rely on being compiled on GNU/Linux.  GRUB
> 2, when compiled on *BSD, should be capable of loading Linux just as
> GRUB 2 compiled on GNU/Linux would.

Agree. So, standard 255 is ok, but then it'll be nice to allow user to
compile "grub2" to expand the commandline. I don't know whether any 
distributions expand more than 255 characters.

Thanks,
Jeff.