Re: [Xen-devel] Uniform commands for booting xen

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

12.11.2015 20:08, Jan Beulich пишет:
>>>> On 12.11.15 at 17:58, <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 12.11.2015 18:44, Jan Beulich пишет:
>>>>>> On 12.11.15 at 14:41, <phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello, all. I'd like to have set of commands that would boot xen on all
>>>> platforms. I thought of following set:
>>>>
>>>> xen_hypervisor FILE XEN_OPTIONS
>>>> xen_kernel FILE KERNEL_OPTIONS
>>>> xen_initrd INITRD INITRD INITRD
>>>> all initrds are concatenated.
>>>> xen_xsm ???
>>>
>>> xen_ucode (and we might add more going forward). I don't see
>>> why the multiboot mechanism (kernel plus any number of modules)
>>> can't be used, without adding any Xen-specific directives.
>>>
>>
>> Loader commands traditionally reflected underlying protocol. Using
>> multiboot command in this case would be confusing as this is not
>> multiboot.
>
> Why would it not be multiboot?
>

It is multiboot on x86 but it is something different on arm64; or did I 
misunderstand something?