On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > If we constantly add (new) kernel arguments, we may at some time face > the problem that the calling PROM/firmware/whatever cannot handle a > command line which is *that* long. IIRC DECstations have a quite limited > prompt length. This hurts for "3/tftp():vmecoff root=/dev/ram > nfsroot=/nfsroot/decxxxx ip=bootp console=ttyS2 console=tty0 > early_printk=arc" That has already been trained by the Alpha people. I think we simply need a bootloader capable of handling network boots -- with the REX firmware it shouldn't be that difficult. For disk loads I suppose it's already handled by delo (I haven't checked). We don't have a tape loader, do we? BTW, you may omit "nfsroot=" above if you send a root path in a BOOTP reply and also "ip=bootp" shouldn't be necessary if the causing bug was fixed (I have a temporary patch). The limit is 37 characters for the "boot" variable (due to the limitation of the BBU RAM) and a bit higher for an explicitly typed in command line (I think it's 80 characters, but I can't remember for sure). -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
