From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGyez-0005oi-BX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:10:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGyeu-0005gY-IL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:10:52 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54850 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGyeu-0005fx-0k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:10:48 -0400 Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.4]:56908) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGyet-00083p-Al for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:10:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1245256873-8010-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2 From: "=?utf-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois?= Revol" Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:10:36 +0200 CEST Message-Id: <1107555501-BeMail@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, rene@exactcode.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org > This patch implements support for Multiboot on x86 for -kernel. > Multiboot is a "new" approach to get rid of different bootloaders, > providing > a unified interface for the kernel. It supports command line options > and > kernel modules. > > The two probably best known projects using multiboot are Xen and GNU > Hurd. While Haiku doesn't use it (yet, but it will probably never be able to load without a BIOS except with the gzipped kernel trick used on a floppy image for CD booting), it'd be nice to have the -append option args forwarded by the BIOS so one could still use -append regardless the boot method used to pass options to the OS, in which case I'd add support for them in the Haiku loader. Fran=C3=A7ois.