linux-kernel - Re: Reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen

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Message-ID: <45045335.1070406@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:02:29 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen

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
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