Re: [Xen-devel] DOC-DAY: WIP for command line options documentation

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:47:00AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 09:40 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > On 27/02/12 19:27, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:43:10PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > >> Attached is an attempt to document all the Xen command line parameters.
> > >>
> > >> Because of other tasks, (and choosing to document the rather twisty
> > >> 'acpi' option first), It is far less complete than I was hoping.
> > >>
> > >> However, I am submitting it so other people may benefit (and contribute)
> > >> going forward.
> > >>
> > > Related link:
> > > http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Hypervisor_Boot_Options
> > >
> > > -- Pasi
> > 
> > Yes - I am aware of that, but sadly it is starting to get out of date. 
> > The idea of having a markdown document in the source tree is so any
> > patch modifying command line behavior should also patch this file, so
> > hopefully the document will stay up to date going forward.
> 
> A good starting point would be to cut-n-paste that wiki page into the
> markdown docs and then replace the wiki page with a link to the
> generated docs at http://xenbits.xen.org/docs . This would be preferable
> to starting completely from scratch.
> 

Makes sense..

> Aside That wiki page's use of "Grub.conf options for Xen" vs "Xen
> Command Line" is pretty confusing, I think it is trying to say "Xen
> Command Line" and "Dom0 Linux Kernel Command Line" respectively but I
> wasn't sure so I didn't want to touch it.
> 

I think there is (or at least was on the old wiki) a page listing all the dom0 
kernel options.

So the Xen_Hypervisor_Boot_Options has only Xen (xen.gz) options.

-- Pasi

> Ian.
> 
> > 
> > ~Andrew
> > 
> > >
> > >> -- 
> > >> Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer
> > >> T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com
> > >>
> > >
> > 
> 
> 

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