Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2

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