From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:02:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45045335.1070406@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45036A5B.3070402@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>> > 4 for ETHERBOOT
>> > + 5 for ELILO
>> > + 7 for GRuB
>> > + 8 for U-BOOT
>> > + 9 for Xen
>> > V = version
>> > 0x211 char loadflags:
>>
>> Is there a reason 6 has been skipped ?
>>
>
> HPA told me to use 9. Maybe there's an unofficial user for 6?
>
6 was skipped because I couldn't rule out that it hadn't been
unofficially used. It seemed easier to skip it for now.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-10 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-09 23:55 Reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-10 1:20 ` Dave Jones
2006-09-10 1:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-10 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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