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 <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>

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 <[email protected]> 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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