From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v4 11/13] Debian: Create boot.scr with a suffix and copy to boot.scr Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:27:35 +0000 Message-ID: <1421843255.13271.26.camel@citrix.com> References: <1421839070.4899.8.camel@citrix.com> <1421839094-10857-11-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <21695.38618.254300.671985@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <21695.38618.254300.671985@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 12:08 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST v4 11/13] Debian: Create boot.scr with a suffix and copy to boot.scr"): > > This ensures that we always have a boot script to boot at least the > > native Debian kernel and Xen available, even after multiple iterations > > of installation, which is handy when debugging a system. > > I confess I don't quite see how this works, due to my lack of > understanding of u-boot et al's plumbing, but I see nothing to object > to. u-boot essential does "load $script_addr $boot_script ; source $script_addr", all this does is mean one can conveniently do "setenv boot_script boot.scr.$foo; boot" (for foo in deb, nat, xen) to override the default of boot.scr if you've borked it somehow. > Acked-by: Ian Jackson Thanks. Ian.