On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 11:24 -0700, David Daney wrote: > David VomLehn wrote: > > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 05:35:18PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > >> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:57:19PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote: > >> > >>> Most platforms can get by perfectly well with the default command line size, > >>> but some platforms need more. This patch allows the command line size to > >>> be configured for those platforms that need it. The default remains 256 > >>> characters. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@xxxxxxxxx> > >> How big of a command line do you need? For no scientific reason other > >> than there not being any obvious need for a larger size MIPS is using 256 > >> and I think unless you're asking for a huge number it will be better to > >> just raise that constant. > > > > The answer depends on the platform, but it's at 438 characters on a typical > > platform. If I *had* to pick a number, I'd probably go for 512 characters; I > > just hate to force others to use memory they aren't going to use. > > > > I wonder if the memory could be dynamically allocated. It would of > course be a much larger patch. > > David Daney > A bit of a chicken and egg problem if your command line arguments set the memory configuration. Jon Fraser Broadcom
