Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:11:52 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: LOADER_TYPE for Xen in boot_params? |
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H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> Should I be poking some Xen-specific value into the LOADER_TYPE >> field? If so, what value? Should I just claim 5? And should this >> be Xen in particular, or reserve a value for 'hypervisor' and then >> have some other mechanism to distinguish which one? >> > > It probably should be Xen in particular. Send me a patch allocating 9 > for Xen, and use that.
Claim an ID number for Xen in the LOADER_TYPE field.
Also, keep the table in zero-page.txt consistent with boot.txt.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
diff -r 4f3c59461622 Documentation/i386/boot.txt --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt Mon Aug 07 12:01:49 2006 -0700 +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt Mon Aug 07 23:06:45 2006 -0700 @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ filled out, however: 5 ELILO 7 GRuB 8 U-BOOT + 9 Xen Please contact <hpa@zytor.com> if you need a bootloader ID value assigned. diff -r 4f3c59461622 Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt --- a/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt Mon Aug 07 12:01:49 2006 -0700 +++ b/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt Mon Aug 07 23:07:30 2006 -0700 @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ 0x210 char LOADER_TYPE, = 0, old one 2 for bootsect-loader 3 for SYSLINUX 4 for ETHERBOOT + 5 for ELILO + 7 for GRuB + 8 for U-BOOT + 9 for Xen V = version 0x211 char loadflags: bit0 = 1: kernel is loaded high (bzImage)
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