From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43)
	id 1MGzQ7-0001I9-OL
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:59:35 -0400
Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43)
	id 1MGzQ2-00017L-Fu
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:59:35 -0400
Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40546 helo=monty-python.gnu.org)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGzQ2-00016g-3Q
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:59:30 -0400
Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.147]:30653)
	by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60)
	(envelope-from <anthony@codemonkey.ws>) id 1MGzQ1-0007zJ-LQ
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:59:29 -0400
Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so245910qwk.4
	for <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:59:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <4A392EFE.70000@codemonkey.ws>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:59:26 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2
References: <1107555501-BeMail@laptop>
In-Reply-To: <1107555501-BeMail@laptop>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/qemu-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=subscribe>
To: =?UTF-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lzIFJldm9s?= <revol@free.fr>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, rene@exactcode.de, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

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