[gPXE] Image name length

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Christian Helmuth
<christian.helmuth at genode-labs.com> wrote:
> I wonder why the image names in gPXE are limited to 16 characters in
> include/gpxe/image.h while the command-line buffer is dynamically
> allocated. That's real downer as apart from that gPXE does a great
> job in our multiboot environment (after bumping MAX_MODULES to 32).

CCed Andrei who is currently working on multiboot improvements.

The 16 character limit is also an issue for Solaris multiboot.  What
are you booting?  Care to share your config?

In general there is nothing stopping contributions that eliminate
limitations such as these.  There is a code size and memory footprint
constraint on gPXE which can present a challenge.  Sometimes this
explains why the limitations exist.  If you want to work on patches
that would be great.

Andrei: Any thoughts?

Stefan