On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 09:23:46PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 03:01:50PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > The strange part is that it is necessary to pass -c to the DOM0 in boot.cfg > > to > > actually disable com* and the bootloader does not execute the > > userconf=disable com* > > command that is present in boot.cfg when booting NetBSD/xen DOM0. The > > userconf=com* > > setting works for the boot without Xen, but with Xen the bootloader ignores > > that > > setting in boot.cfg. > > This is because the userconf command from the boot loader doens't make it > to the dom0 kernel. > Remember that when booting Xen; Xen is the kernel and XEN3_DOM0 a module. > I don't know if multiboot allows passing extended informations to a module.
Every module can be passed a string. That's even in the 0.6.96 specification. Took me 5 minutes to look that up. And even if standard multiboot doesn't allow it. It is our bootloader code so we can extend it every way we like. --chris
