From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: [Linaro-uefi] [PATCH] xen: arm: implement generic multiboot compatibility strings (Was: Re: The GRUB multiboot support patch for aarch64(V3.1)) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:07:48 +0100 Message-ID: <53931CB4.5030007@linaro.org> References: <536A1FCF.50207@linaro.org> <1401899819.15729.44.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <5390205B.5060803@linaro.org> <1401969408.15729.52.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <53909CA0.9010407@linaro.org> <1401987331.7269.81.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> <5390A2F6.2060305@linaro.org> <1401993081.15729.170.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <5391B2F1.5070307@linaro.org> <5391B3D9.5090901@linaro.org> <1402057973.1313.40.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> <5391C15F.204@linaro.org> <1402064662.1313.68.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1402064662.1313.68.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: linaro-uefi , Fu Wei , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 06/06/14 15:24, Ian Campbell wrote: >> If we plan to assume that the zImage always go with linux,initrd* >> properties then we have to document this specification somewhere. > > If something is going to pretend to be Linux (by pretending to be a > Linux zImage) then it should behave like Linux on boot. I think this > extends to initrd handling. > > If what Linux does is undocumented (or the docs are out of step with > reality), well, that's too bad. > > Feel free to work on improving Linux's documentation. I think it is > orthogonal to the questions raised in this thread though. Thanks I will try to send a patch for the Linux documentation to clarify it. -- Julien Grall