From: "François Revol" <revol@free.fr>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, rene@exactcode.de, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:34:37 +0200 CEST [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4014278598-BeMail@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26A499CF-3400-4EC9-A0DA-8CC994FE423E@suse.de>
> >> That makes sense on real hardware, of course. But for -kernel you
> >> don't
> >> need a file system to read the kernel from.
> >
> > Except that wouldn't be the actual kernel passed but the 2nd stage.
> > And having to pass the kernel in a tgz outside the BFS image makes
> > it
> > more complex to set up.
>
> I don't see why you need a tgz file. Multiboot can pass multiple
> modules. Just use -initrd foo,bar,xxx
Sure you'll pass 30 names there ;)
Plus, does it handle folders and symlinks, as that's required ?
There is no need to make it even harder anyway, the build process does
generate the tgz for CD/floppy boot anyway.
François.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-18 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-17 16:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2 Alexander Graf
2009-06-17 16:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Change bochs bios init order Alexander Graf
2009-06-17 16:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Expose fw_cfg v2 Alexander Graf
2009-06-17 16:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Multiboot support v2 Alexander Graf
2009-06-17 16:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Multiboot build system Alexander Graf
2009-06-18 9:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] Multiboot support v2 Avi Kivity
2009-06-18 10:22 ` Alexander Graf
2009-06-18 11:19 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-17 17:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2 François Revol
2009-06-17 17:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-18 8:25 ` François Revol
2009-06-18 9:09 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-18 11:44 ` François Revol
2009-06-18 11:55 ` Alexander Graf
2009-06-18 12:13 ` François Revol
2009-06-18 12:01 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-18 12:17 ` François Revol
2009-06-18 12:23 ` Alexander Graf
2009-06-18 12:34 ` François Revol [this message]
2009-06-18 12:29 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-18 12:35 ` François Revol
2009-06-18 11:15 ` Gleb Natapov
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