From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKyuH-0005Xk-A1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:15:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MKyuB-0005WP-UB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:15:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33730 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKyuB-0005WI-M6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:15:07 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:52531) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKyuB-00006B-Jw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:15:07 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKyuA-00042q-Js for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:15:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4A47B326.7020803@web.de> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:15:02 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4A45D428.9050600@web.de> <4A47A02F.5020108@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A47A02F.5020108@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0F9C312F81840DFABF4C9E8F" Sender: jan.kiszka@web.de Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/2] Rework -boot option List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0F9C312F81840DFABF4C9E8F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/27/2009 11:11 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> This patch changes the boot command line option to the canonical forma= t >> >> -boot [order=3D]drives[,interactive=3Don|off] >> >> where 'drives' is using the same format as the old -boot. The format >> switch allows to add the 'interactive' option and use the existing >> infrastructure to parse it. However, the old format is still understoo= d >> and will be processed at least for a transition time. >> >> The state of 'interactive' is transfered to the firmware via the new >> configuration value FW_CFG_BOOT_INTERACTIVE. >> =20 >=20 > Perhaps interactive (and the boot order itself) should be forgotten > after a successful boot? A typical use case is to boot an installer of= f > the cdrom; the next boot ought to try the hard disk. But perhaps other= > use cases don't want that. >=20 We could extend the new format to -boot [order=3Ddrives][,once=3Ddrives][,interactive=3Don|off] where 'once' specifies the order to be used only for the very first boot of this machine. Jan --------------enig0F9C312F81840DFABF4C9E8F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpHsyYACgkQniDOoMHTA+lhFwCeOzhE7U9Bd3yJNkPTRU5HD+BP FxIAn3a4Ri5XZnmGJT0MYdZU6uIZoNn9 =mRY5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0F9C312F81840DFABF4C9E8F--