From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: identifying module types
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:06:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061216050633.GD2482@saphi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165960114.28426.23.camel@basalt>
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:48:34PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:02 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> >
> > On the consumer side of multiboot (in this case Xen), we need to loop
> > over the tags, and when we find a module tag, how do we know which it
> > is? The Multiboot2 spec tells us "The order of modules is not
> > guaranteed." (Why not?)
>
> Of course, requiring that the order be preserved is the simplest
> solution, so unless there is a compelling reason to avoid that, I think
> we should avoid the UUID complexity.
I don't agree here. Preserving the order is not enough. The best example
is Xen: even if we agree that the first module is the dom0 kernel, the second
module may be either the dom0 initrd *or* the acm configuration file. Both
are optional.
Tristan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-16 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 19:58 some multiboot2 comments Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-27 4:09 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-10-27 5:37 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-28 14:06 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-29 16:38 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-10-30 19:20 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-30 20:24 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-11-02 19:52 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-11-04 14:40 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-09 0:02 ` identifying module types Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-09 5:31 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-12 20:56 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-12 22:54 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-13 4:14 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-16 5:09 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-16 5:04 ` Tristan Gingold
2006-12-12 21:48 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-16 5:06 ` Tristan Gingold [this message]
2006-12-12 22:28 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-12-13 0:07 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-12-13 20:47 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-28 14:11 ` some multiboot2 comments Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-28 18:32 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-30 19:15 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-31 1:43 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-11-02 19:53 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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