From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1ZwvCX-0000Xr-Cg for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:58:21 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40507) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwvCU-0000XD-Ix for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:58:19 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwvCR-0007gN-BD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:58:18 -0500 Received: from mail-lb0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::235]:35078) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwvCR-0007fv-3d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:58:15 -0500 Received: by lbbsy6 with SMTP id sy6so10211107lbb.2 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:58:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4lFvuZtKVR569SObXJ+McN0BxePcPWcXsB5gCk7wRz4=; b=Lyq/1I28fjUJiXdY9dt8aiPKR/HWg7neFzKeAWzUTnn648lsWpb+bXWtaHw0/W/gHQ wQM6ES11U/PGhySxwtybGAQpd33LMHdqYNBubawQmjpcR83uZyq5EORFmV8ML3a9QORl e9A/Mus6gSE72BYAfb1tgY2XwSvEA3v1nasIGMrMM3Bqjo+XMASnGJmXNwbYSoIHFk/V dVBRJTxkZsOrt4tEgrsYMVUfrUFaLSoDm4zMRasEqv7s1LLCyx2t/xis7+fyQOJUlJ82 3fAVjDbWVBm6vNQ5C8PmcA5iPp/gwJfxqIPZN8UrhwhVWKWsPCMgrhBkHOOLRu1PY6LU WyPA== X-Received: by 10.112.134.73 with SMTP id pi9mr7848319lbb.83.1447347493903; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.41] (ppp91-76-25-247.pppoe.mtu-net.ru. [91.76.25.247]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v1sm2433211lfd.25.2015.11.12.08.58.12 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:58:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Uniform commands for booting xen To: The development of GNU GRUB , =?UTF-8?Q?Vladimir_'=cf=86-coder/phcoder'_Serbinenko?= References: <56449726.8090707@gmail.com> <5644C1F502000078000B455F@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> From: Andrei Borzenkov Message-ID: <5644C522.10302@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:58:10 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5644C1F502000078000B455F@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::235 Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:58:19 -0000 12.11.2015 18:44, Jan Beulich пишет: >>>> On 12.11.15 at 14:41, wrote: >> Hello, all. I'd like to have set of commands that would boot xen on all >> platforms. I thought of following set: >> >> xen_hypervisor FILE XEN_OPTIONS >> xen_kernel FILE KERNEL_OPTIONS >> xen_initrd INITRD INITRD INITRD >> all initrds are concatenated. >> xen_xsm ??? > > xen_ucode (and we might add more going forward). I don't see > why the multiboot mechanism (kernel plus any number of modules) > can't be used, without adding any Xen-specific directives. > Loader commands traditionally reflected underlying protocol. Using multiboot command in this case would be confusing as this is not multiboot. But I agree that it is becoming ridiculous. Probably xen_kernel xen_module would be enough. > Jan > >> On arm64 it would use the arm64 xen FDT protocol but on x86 should we >> use multiboot2 if multiboot2 header is present and multiboot otherwise? >> Or do xen devs have other preferences? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >