From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MIkQA-00015g-SA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:22:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MIkQ6-00013W-CW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:22:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36523 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MIkQ5-00013C-7v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:22:49 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:42884) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MIkQ4-0007Bi-U1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:22:49 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1041611fga.8 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:22:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A3F93B2.1050407@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:22:42 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v3 References: <1245326201-17019-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1245326201-17019-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Alexander Graf 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. > Works booting Xen from Fedora 8 and doesn't regress -kernel. However, when using multiboot, the ROMs don't survive a reboot. If you look at how -kernel is implemented, you'll various calls option_rom_reset() to cover not just the roms but also the kernel/initrd bits. You'll need to do the same thing for multiboot. Regards, Anthony Liguori