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Re: some multiboot2 comments
From: |
Tristan Gingold |
Subject: |
Re: some multiboot2 comments |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:24:21 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:20:55PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:38, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > grub should be aware of the main module types. For these TYPE is a keyword
> > such as ramdisk, kernel, xen-acm...
> > For not yet known types, TYPE can be an UUID.
> > UUID doesn't require a central administration. I think this is a real
> > advantage.
>
> I do not agree. If you want a parameter which may not be interpreted by a
> boot
> loader, you can simply pass it as an argument to a module. I see no reason
> that this should be part of the spec.
The best raison is to have a unified method to identify a module. IMHO the
argument line is to be interpreted only by the module.
You know all the parameters can be put into the command line...
Tristan.
Re: some multiboot2 comments, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2006/10/28