From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1ZwvPg-0001dt-CF for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:11:56 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwvPa-0001cP-Al for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:11:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwvPX-0003Z9-2s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:11:50 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::22e]:35734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwvPW-0003Ys-RO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:11:47 -0500 Received: by lfdo63 with SMTP id o63so37903452lfd.2 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:11:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mTpnSv2rA4bRBvaCX09QBYTv7VoRqOMkz7aokgv4VU8=; b=N1iCvr0neSTP8VR+GMryX6BM+hVI9GPcHZwO2KVsB9obhtLV0shYmlKCe3U+BKimI/ qnPEIJvSph696TQkFCUemD0AyvIKlyN+J5zIDTWz6ZKpR5g3YvDVNteofUaL4anSgNfP GUQGJ14jghbGrRuJep4e6HDTEfkF8rLKd/4wAMBBZmikG6DOpKEMwJpoXoBY9azw89Mc pqu8p2T+3ssx9mKnVtqDIh57Flx1F/36RTHWE9qCH71dhRPue8uHrzOVSqAnf+FaFEwa ncg/e0mmh/Mgg98n4C6/oIzlUmeWsz+Srs9CxVkRChlUXew9Su4z0XNMd8uYjHxj/YWf +EWg== X-Received: by 10.25.151.133 with SMTP id z127mr7448707lfd.105.1447348305922; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:11:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.41] (ppp91-76-25-247.pppoe.mtu-net.ru. [91.76.25.247]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id kk6sm2409118lbc.48.2015.11.12.09.11.44 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:11:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Uniform commands for booting xen To: Jan Beulich References: <56449726.8090707@gmail.com> <5644C1F502000078000B455F@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <5644C522.10302@gmail.com> <5644D5B702000078000B46A0@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> From: Andrei Borzenkov Message-ID: <5644C850.4050105@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:11:44 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5644D5B702000078000B46A0@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c07::22e Cc: phcoder@gmail.com, "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , The development of GNU GRUB X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 17:11:56 -0000 12.11.2015 20:08, Jan Beulich пишет: >>>> On 12.11.15 at 17:58, wrote: >> 12.11.2015 18:44, Jan Beulich пишет: >>>>>> On 12.11.15 at 14:41, 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?