Re: pxeboot broken by commit "x86 setup: handle boot loaders which set up the stack incorrectly"

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To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 1:53 pm

Yinghai Lu wrote:

The bug is that syslinux incorrectly positions the stack above the 
command line (but not the stack pointer register; hence the kernel patch 
exposing this bug.)  So the stack plus command line end up being limited 
  to 512 bytes; how much stack gets used depends on the BIOS, so one 
BIOS may use a lot more than another.

	-hpa
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