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From: "Sebastian Herbszt" <herbszt@gmx.de>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/2] Rework -boot option
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:40:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A9DBB5A444BD4F09A2CE0F5733ED76DB@FSCPC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A45D428.9050600@web.de>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This patch changes the boot command line option to the canonical format
> 
>  -boot [order=]drives[,interactive=on|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 understood
> 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.

What about using "[boot]menu" instead of "interactive"?
The Phoenix BIOS i got here allows me to enable/disable the boot menu,
so this seems common.

- Sebastian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-28 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-27  8:11 [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/2] Rework -boot option Jan Kiszka
2009-06-28 16:54 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-28 18:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-06-28 19:40 ` Sebastian Herbszt [this message]
2009-06-29  6:50   ` Jan Kiszka

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