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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/2] Rework -boot option
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:54:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A47A02F.5020108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A45D428.9050600@web.de>

On 06/27/2009 11:11 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This patch changes the boot command line option to the canonical format
>
>   -boot [order=]drives[,interactive=on|off]
>
> where 'drives' is using the same format as the old -boot. The format
> switch allows to add the 'interactive' option and use the existing
> infrastructure to parse it. However, the old format is still understood
> and will be processed at least for a transition time.
>
> The state of 'interactive' is transfered to the firmware via the new
> configuration value FW_CFG_BOOT_INTERACTIVE.
>    

Perhaps interactive (and the boot order itself) should be forgotten 
after a successful boot?  A typical use case is to boot an installer off 
the cdrom; the next boot ought to try the hard disk.  But perhaps other 
use cases don't want that.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-28 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-27  8:11 [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/2] Rework -boot option Jan Kiszka
2009-06-28 16:54 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-28 18:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-06-28 19:40 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2009-06-29  6:50   ` Jan Kiszka

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