Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86-64/EFI: document building and usage

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 20.06.12 at 13:35, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 08:36 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> The text looks fine to me, thanks. One comment inline below.
> 
> Did you consider using markdown syntax to get a somewhat formatted HTML
> output? You'd basically just need to s/.txt/.markdown/ and tweak things
> a bit to use the markdown syntax (which is designed to mostly follow the
> sorts of ASCII typographical conventions which people use anyway).
> 
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ 

I didn't consider this, but I can certainly convert it if that's what
is preferred these days.

>> +**************************example begin******************************
>> +[global]
>> +default=sle11sp2
>> +
>> +[sle11sp2]
>> +options=console=vga,com1 com1=57600 loglvl=all noreboot
>> +kernel=vmlinuz-3.0.31-0.4-xen ignore_loglevel #earlyprintk=xen
>> +ramdisk=initrd-3.0.31-0.4-xen
>> +**************************example end********************************
>> +
>> +Other values to specify are
> 
> As well as "Other values" I think you need to document the ones above as
> well.

Hmm, I would think anyone half way familiar with Xen can interpret
the meaning of the four ones used above without extra explanation.
I don't intend this small piece of text to be a reference document,
but just an aid to people (having got tired of individuals contacting
me namely about how to build xen.efi, despite all the information
being available already - just scattered around).

Jan


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