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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Cc: "M A Young" <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>,
	"The development of GNU GRUB" <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
	fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	"Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:16:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5294F37D.805@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131126221221.3fe316e3@opensuse.site>

On 26/11/13 18:12, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:58:47 +0100
> Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz> пишет:
>
>> I have also another question:
>> Is possible specify multiple path where search the grub.cfg for support 
>> all mainly distributions and add a custom cfg path support taking it 
>> from arguments?
>>
> You can do something like
>
> if search --set root --file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ; then
>   configfile /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> elif search --set root --file /boot/grub/grub.cfg ; then
>   configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> elif ...
>   ...
> fi
>
> If xen provides way to pass arguments to kernel, it sure could be
> implemented as arguments to grub. Actually someone asked for a way to
> pass arguments to grub on EFI, so this could share implementation.

The way PV guests get a command line from the toolstack is via the
start_info.cmd_line, which is up to 1024 bytes.

This will be available to anything which gets its hand on the start info
page.

~Andrew


WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Cc: "M A Young" <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>,
	"The development of GNU GRUB" <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
	fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	"Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: pvgrub2 is merged
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:16:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5294F37D.805@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131126221221.3fe316e3@opensuse.site>

On 26/11/13 18:12, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:58:47 +0100
> Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz> пишет:
>
>> I have also another question:
>> Is possible specify multiple path where search the grub.cfg for support 
>> all mainly distributions and add a custom cfg path support taking it 
>> from arguments?
>>
> You can do something like
>
> if search --set root --file /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ; then
>   configfile /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> elif search --set root --file /boot/grub/grub.cfg ; then
>   configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> elif ...
>   ...
> fi
>
> If xen provides way to pass arguments to kernel, it sure could be
> implemented as arguments to grub. Actually someone asked for a way to
> pass arguments to grub on EFI, so this could share implementation.

The way PV guests get a command line from the toolstack is via the
start_info.cmd_line, which is up to 1024 bytes.

This will be available to anything which gets its hand on the start info
page.

~Andrew

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-26 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 149+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-09 20:52 pvgrub2 is merged Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-09 21:01 ` [Xen-devel] " Samuel Thibault
2013-11-09 21:01 ` Samuel Thibault
2013-11-10  4:47 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-11-10  4:47 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-11-11 11:51   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-11 11:51   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-13 19:06   ` [Xen-devel] " M A Young
2013-11-13 19:06     ` M A Young
2013-11-13 20:14     ` [Xen-devel] " Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14 12:27       ` M A Young
2013-11-14 12:27       ` [Xen-devel] " M A Young
2013-11-14 17:03         ` M A Young
2013-11-14 17:32           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14 18:48             ` M A Young
2013-11-14 18:48             ` [Xen-devel] " M A Young
2013-11-14 18:57               ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14 18:59                 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14 21:11                   ` M A Young
2013-11-14 21:11                   ` [Xen-devel] " M A Young
2013-11-14 21:43                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-25 15:56                       ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-25 15:56                         ` Fabio Fantoni
     [not found]                         ` <CAEaD8JOKf7J8ZRfRH_s03UQ9xw=qDziutHNoZs=NTKo3oN_vJg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-25 16:26                           ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-25 19:35                         ` [Xen-devel] " M A Young
2013-11-26 17:58                           ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-26 17:58                           ` [Xen-devel] " Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-26 18:12                             ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-11-26 19:16                               ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2013-11-26 19:16                                 ` Andrew Cooper
2013-11-27 11:32                               ` [Xen-devel] " Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-27 11:50                                 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-27 11:50                                 ` [Xen-devel] " Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-27 15:59                                   ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-27 15:59                                   ` [Xen-devel] " Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-27 16:03                                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-27 16:24                                       ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-27 17:35                                         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-11-28 13:07                                           ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-28 13:07                                           ` [Xen-devel] " Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-28 14:05                                             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-28 14:05                                             ` [Xen-devel] " Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-28 14:17                                               ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-28 14:17                                               ` [Xen-devel] " Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-29 11:28                                                 ` Fabio Fantoni
     [not found]                                                   ` <52987D7F.3050006@gmail.com>
     [not found]                                                     ` <52988F86.6050008@m2r.biz>
2013-12-03 10:31                                                       ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-03 10:31                                                         ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-03 10:33                                                         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-03 10:33                                                           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-03 11:22                                                           ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-03 11:22                                                             ` Fabio Fantoni
     [not found]                                                             ` <529DC07E.8000201@gmail.com>
     [not found]                                                               ` <529DE3FD.90002@m2r.biz>
2013-12-03 15:33                                                                 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-03 16:16                                                                   ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-06 11:11                                                                     ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-06 11:32                                                                       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-06 14:44                                                                         ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-06 14:55                                                                           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-06 15:22                                                                             ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-07 10:06                                                                               ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-09 10:06                                                                                 ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-17 10:44                                                                                   ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-17 11:03                                                                                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-17 13:11                                                                                       ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-17 13:32                                                                                         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-17 13:55                                                                                           ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-17 13:55                                                                                             ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-17 14:08                                                                                             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-17 14:08                                                                                               ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-17 14:10                                                                                               ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-17 14:10                                                                                                 ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-17 14:35                                                                                                 ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-17 14:35                                                                                                   ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-18 14:58                                                                                                   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-18 14:58                                                                                                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-18 19:39                                                                                                     ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-18 19:39                                                                                                       ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-18 20:20                                                                                                       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-18 20:20                                                                                                         ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-19 11:54                                                                                                         ` [Xen-devel] " Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-19 11:54                                                                                                           ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-20 12:14                                                                                                           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-20 12:14                                                                                                             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-06 12:23                                                                                                             ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-01-06 12:23                                                                                                               ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-11-07 15:20                                                                                                             ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-11-07 15:20                                                                                                               ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-12-17 11:59                                                                                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-05 15:50                                                   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-05 15:50                                                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-05 16:04                                                     ` [Xen-devel] " Fabio Fantoni
2013-12-05 16:04                                                     ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-29 11:28                                                 ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-27 17:35                                         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-11-27 16:24                                       ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-27 16:03                                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-27 16:10                                     ` M A Young
2013-11-27 16:10                                     ` [Xen-devel] " M A Young
2013-11-27 11:32                               ` Fabio Fantoni
2013-11-26 18:12                             ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-11-25 19:35                         ` M A Young
2013-11-14 21:43                     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14 18:59                 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14 18:57               ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14 17:32           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14 17:03         ` M A Young
2013-11-13 20:14     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-11 10:10 ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-11 10:10 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-11-11 11:54   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-11 11:54   ` [Xen-devel] " Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-11 12:06     ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-11 12:06     ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-11-11 12:52       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-11 12:52       ` [Xen-devel] " Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14  9:48   ` Dario Faggioli
2013-11-14  9:48     ` Dario Faggioli
2013-11-13 16:36 ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-11-13 18:25   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-14  8:37     ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-14  8:37     ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-12-11 11:47       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-11 11:51         ` Ian Campbell
2013-12-11 11:51         ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-12-11 11:54           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-11 14:34             ` Dario Faggioli
2013-12-11 14:34             ` [Xen-devel] " Dario Faggioli
2013-12-14 17:13             ` Leif Lindholm
2013-12-14 17:13             ` [Xen-devel] " Leif Lindholm
2013-12-11 11:54           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-06 15:35           ` [Xen-devel] " Lars Kurth
2014-01-06 15:35             ` Lars Kurth
2013-12-11 11:47       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-13 18:25   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-11-13 16:36 ` Ian Campbell
2013-11-29 13:24 ` Colin Watson
2013-11-29 17:44   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-11-29 18:16     ` Colin Watson
2013-12-02  9:48     ` Ian Campbell
2013-12-02  9:48     ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-12-02 10:37       ` Samuel Thibault
2013-12-02 10:46         ` Ian Campbell
2013-12-02 10:46         ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-12-02 10:37       ` Samuel Thibault
2013-12-03 17:27       ` Colin Watson
2013-12-03 17:27       ` [Xen-devel] " Colin Watson
2013-12-03 17:41         ` Ian Campbell
2013-12-03 17:41         ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-11-29 17:44   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-11-30 10:36   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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