[syslinux] Patch sensible callback framework

Steffen Winterfeldt wfeldt at suse.de
Thu Apr 29 07:42:52 PDT 2010


On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 04/29/2010 12:29 AM, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
>>
>> The other issue with 1MB chunks is that with about 10MB kernel+initrd this
>> would give only about 10 steps.
>>
>
> Keep in mind that when we had 64K steps the maximum kernel size was
> 512K... no more than 8 steps.

Ok, 64k is maybe a bit extreme. All I'm saying is that it would be nice to
have the chunk size configurable.


Steffen

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