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

[Anthony Liguori]

François Revol wrote:
> > 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.
>   

How can the BIOS pass such information?

The BIOS boot specification doesn't have any notion of command line AFAIK.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori