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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] FW: IA-64 serial driver

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Mark Williamson" <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] FW: IA-64 serial driver
From: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 11:30:20 -0700
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Further suggestion...

If the "--" is missing, all the args get passed to
dom0.  Then with suitable defaults for xen console,
it is backwards compatible with existing elilo.conf
files. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:12 AM
> To: Mark Williamson
> Cc: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Magenheimer, Dan (HP 
> Labs Fort Collins)
> Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] FW: IA-64 serial driver
> 
> 
> On 31 May 2005, at 15:58, Mark Williamson wrote:
> 
> >> Perhaps we could/should use
> >> the "--" separator like grep (and getopts?) uses, e.g.
> >> console=xxx com2=yyy -- console=zzz com2=www nomca
> >>  ^ xen arguments ^       ^ dom0 arguments^
> >
> > I was going to suggest this: I think the mbootpack program already 
> > uses this
> > format.
> 
> Yeah, I like this format more than the one that I suggested.
> 
>   -- Keir
> 
> 

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