From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: "François Revol" <revol@free.fr>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, rene@exactcode.de,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A392EFE.70000@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1107555501-BeMail@laptop>
François Revol wrote:
>> 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.
>
How can the BIOS pass such information?
The BIOS boot specification doesn't have any notion of command line AFAIK.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-17 17:59 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 [this message]
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
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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