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Re: [Xen-devel] Uniform commands for booting xen



>>> On 12.11.15 at 14:41, <phcoder@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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?




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