Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932344AbWIJSCt (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:02:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932345AbWIJSCt (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:02:49 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:30695 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932344AbWIJSCs (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Sep 2006 14:02:48 -0400 Message-ID: <45045335.1070406@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:02:29 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen References: <45035472.8000506@goop.org> <20060910012029.GA26959@redhat.com> <45036A5B.3070402@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <45036A5B.3070402@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 25 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: >> > 4 for ETHERBOOT >> > + 5 for ELILO >> > + 7 for GRuB >> > + 8 for U-BOOT >> > + 9 for Xen >> > V = version >> > 0x211 char loadflags: >> >> Is there a reason 6 has been skipped ? >> > > HPA told me to use 9. Maybe there's an unofficial user for 6? > 6 was skipped because I couldn't rule out that it hadn't been unofficially used. It seemed easier to skip it for now. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/