Hi Brett --
I haven't studied the details, but implemented a similar
patch on top of elilo for a previous HP research project
a couple years ago... mine was really a hack though and
I'm sure you want this one to be more generally useful.
If the patch:
1) allows at least one additional "initrd-like" file to be
specified, and
2) elilo loads the additional file(s) into physical
memory, and
3) elilo somehow communicates the location of the additional
file via some kind of backwards-compatible extension to
ia64_boot_param, and
4) the patch gets into the mainline elilo source asap
then the patch meets my needs (which I believe are the same
as Anthony's).
I've also cc'ed the xen-ia64-devel list so other Xen/ia64
folks can chime in.
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Johnson [mailto:brettj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 2:24 PM
> To: Xu, Anthony
> Cc: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); Wang, Stanley;
> elilo-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [elilo-discuss] a patch to make elilo load another module
>
> On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 11:57 +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote:
> > Hi Brett,
> >
> > This patch is used to make elilo can load another module.
> As we know,
> > grub also can load another module except for initrd. Currently I'm
> > working on Xen project, we need elilo can load another module, thus
> > guest OS can load initrd of himself. Otherwise guest OS can't have
> > initrd.
>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> I've also received a very similar patch from Stanley Wang of
> intel (I've
> CC'd him on this email). Is yours just a later version of Stanley's?
> ISTR that Stanley thought his patch needed a fair amount of
> cleaning up,
> and to be honest, I haven't looked very closely at it yet. Does the
> patch provide what you need for Xen then? It looks like it
> simply adds
> a "module" directive to the conf file, and a "-m" command line
> parameter.
>
> I've also CC'd Dan Magenheimer, as I know he's involved in
> Xen as well,
> and may have some input on the "is this what you need" front
> :) -- oh,
> and I've attached Anthony's patch to this email, so everyone has it.
>
> --
> Brett Johnson <brett@xxxxxx>
>
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