ACK: [J][PATCH v2 0/2] Long kernel command line on s390x (LP: 1960580)

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com
Fri Feb 18 07:47:30 UTC 2022


On 17/02/2022 20:02, frank.heimes at canonical.com wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960580
> 
> Allow to handle command lines with a length of up to 4096 bytes by kernel.
> It happened in the past that our supported command line size of 896 bytes
> was sometimes too short - while x86, powerpc, and arm each support 2048 bytes.
> 
> This requires:
>  - an ABI interface to the kernel image, so that tools can figure out if the
>    kernel supports large command lines (might be a feature bitmap at a fixed
>    location)
>  - zipl, genprotimg, qemu, kexec-tools and changes (depending on the kernel
>    side implementation)
>  - in-kernel ipl support changes (IPL from reader)
> 
> v2: converted 277c8389386e ("390/kexec_file: move kernel image size check")
>     into a backport, due to required context adjustments
> 
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com>


Best regards,
Krzysztof



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