Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw: improve multiboot module loading

[Ralf Ramsauer]

Hello again,

there's another problem with parsing the initrd string:

If you want to start qemu with ... -initrd "mod1 arg=foo,bar , mod2 
arg=bar,foo" it won't work
The string is separated at every comma, arguments containing a comma are 
misinterpreted.

So we'd think about another way delivering the arguments to load_multiboot.

-initrd is used passing multiboot modules, but multiboot modules aren't really 
initrd's

Multiboot modules are only loaded when qemu identifies the kernel as a 
Multiboot kernel.
It would be much easier to pass the modules to qemu using a commandline 
argument like -multiboot.
e.g.
qemu -kernel mymultibootkern -module "1.mod arg=bla" -module "2.mod arg=foo"

Well i didn't look at the global command line parsing of qemu, and i don't know 
how difficult it would be
to realize this. Anyone ideas?

--
Ralf