This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
sparc64: Increase size of boot string to 1024 bytes
to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.11.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
------
>From 07ddd13795fdf9df079583c3f5c7051f4453b2ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 08:12:37 -0500
Subject: sparc64: Increase size of boot string to 1024 bytes
[ Upstream commit 1cef94c36bd4d79b5ae3a3df99ee0d76d6a4a6dc ]
This is the longest boot string that silo supports.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/prom/bootstr_64.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/prom/bootstr_64.c b/arch/sparc/prom/bootstr_64.c
index ab9ccc6..7149e77 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/prom/bootstr_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/prom/bootstr_64.c
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
* the .bss section or it will break things.
*/
-#define BARG_LEN 256
+/* We limit BARG_LEN to 1024 because this is the size of the
+ * 'barg_out' command line buffer in the SILO bootloader.
+ */
+#define BARG_LEN 1024
struct {
int bootstr_len;
int bootstr_valid;
--
1.9.1
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
