This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sparc64: Increase size of boot string to 1024 bytes
to the 3.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sparc64-increase-size-of-boot-string-to-1024-bytes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Oct 28 11:19:22 CST 2014
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
From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/prom/bootstr_64.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- 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;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/sparc64-increase-size-of-boot-string-to-1024-bytes.patch
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