Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Rework -boot option

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:04:48PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >This patch changes the boot command line option to the canonical format
> >
> > -boot [order=drives][,interactive=on|off]
> >
> >where 'drives' is using the same format as the old -boot. The new format
> >is required in order to add the 'interactive' option and use the
> >existing infrastructure to parse it.
> >
> >The state of 'interactive' is transfered to the firmware via the new
> >configuration value FW_CFG_BOOT_INTERACTIVE.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
> >  
> 
> This breaks compatibility with existing management tools.  Can't we do:
> 
> -boot [order=]drives[,interactive=on|off]
> 
> Certainly, -drive introduces a precedence for this type of format.

The 'order=' seems a little overkill - just leave it out entirely,
just having:

  -boot drives,interactive=on|off

which is fully back-compatible too.

Daniel
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