From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: RFC/Patch: Support for other bootloaders Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:09:30 -0600 Message-ID: <424194BA.7010109@us.ibm.com> References: <1111501132.4293.219.camel@brick.watson.ibm.com> <20050322144227.GB6707@cray.cl.cam.ac.uk> <20050323112019.GB16918@cray.cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050323112019.GB16918@cray.cl.cam.ac.uk> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Tim Deegan Cc: Michal Ostrowski , Ian Pratt , Keir Fraser , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi Tim, Tim Deegan wrote: >mbootpack: Shim between bzImage bootloader interface and Multiboot. > Has some assembler in it, but keeps the unpleasant > hack separate from the Xen codebase. > > This is the great solution. We had been discussing this internally as the preferred mechanism to add this kind of support. My only concern had been the file-size limit on TFTP reducing the potential size of an initrd image for dom0. That's not a huge concern though. Great job! Regards, Anthony Liguori ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005 Attend MEDC 2005 May 9-12 in Vegas. Learn more about the latest Windows Embedded(r) & Windows Mobile(tm) platforms, applications & content. Register by 3/29 & save $300 http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6883&alloc_id=15149&op=click