On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 03:48:34PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:02 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > > On the consumer side of multiboot (in this case Xen), we need to loop > > over the tags, and when we find a module tag, how do we know which it > > is? The Multiboot2 spec tells us "The order of modules is not > > guaranteed." (Why not?) > > Of course, requiring that the order be preserved is the simplest > solution, so unless there is a compelling reason to avoid that, I think > we should avoid the UUID complexity. I don't agree here. Preserving the order is not enough. The best example is Xen: even if we agree that the first module is the dom0 kernel, the second module may be either the dom0 initrd *or* the acm configuration file. Both are optional.
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