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To: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Hello again,

there's another problem with parsing the initrd string:

If you want to start qemu with ... -initrd "mod1 arg=3Dfoo,bar , mod2 =
arg=3Dbar,foo" it won't work
The string is separated at every comma, arguments containing a comma are =
misinterpreted.

So we'd think about another way delivering the arguments to =
load_multiboot.

-initrd is used passing multiboot modules, but multiboot modules aren't =
really initrd's

Multiboot modules are only loaded when qemu identifies the kernel as a =
Multiboot kernel.
It would be much easier to pass the modules to qemu using a commandline =
argument like -multiboot.
e.g.
qemu -kernel mymultibootkern -module "1.mod arg=3Dbla" -module "2.mod =
arg=3Dfoo"

Well i didn't look at the global command line parsing of qemu, and i =
don't know how difficult it would be
to realize this. Anyone ideas?

--
Ralf=