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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images f

To: Paul Larson <pl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XM-TEST] Add support for pulling initrd images from a repo
From: Dan Smith <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:34:29 -0800
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PL> This patch to the Makefile allows you to specify INITRD="url" when
PL> running make existing to make it download a prebuilt copy of the
PL> initrd from a repository.

Yay.  Really.  Yay.

It was previously discussed at the summit that xensource might be able
to host an initrd for the community.  Now that this functionality is
in xm-test, perhaps a URL could be posted to be used as a default for
the INITRD variable?

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Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
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