Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add multiboot support (x86) v2

[François Revol]

> This patch implements support for Multiboot on x86 for -kernel.
> Multiboot is a "new" approach to get rid of different bootloaders,
> providing
> a unified interface for the kernel. It supports command line options
> and
> kernel modules.
>
> The two probably best known projects using multiboot are Xen and GNU
> Hurd.

While Haiku doesn't use it (yet, but it will probably never be able to
load without a BIOS except with the gzipped kernel trick used on a
floppy image for CD booting), it'd be nice to have the -append option
args forwarded by the BIOS so one could still use -append regardless
the boot method used to pass options to the OS, in which case I'd add
support for them in the Haiku loader.

François.