Re: [XenPPC] [PATCH] Option to override firmware bootargs

2006-09-19 Thread Amos Waterland
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:51:05AM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: I'm happy to accommodate netbooting large clusters, but I'm asking you to simplify this situation, not make it more complex. In order to scale to large clusters, one must have flexible and policy-free software. Right now Xen has

Re: [XenPPC] [PATCH] Option to override firmware bootargs

2006-09-19 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 14:25 -0400, Amos Waterland wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:51:05AM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: I'm happy to accommodate netbooting large clusters, but I'm asking you to simplify this situation, not make it more complex. In order to scale to large clusters, one

Re: [XenPPC] [PATCH] Option to override firmware bootargs

2006-09-18 Thread Amos Waterland
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:19:29AM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 02:40 -0400, Amos Waterland wrote: I recently got a few hours on a Maple development board. I wanted to boot with an nfsroot, but I didn't want to risk changing the bootargs saved in the PIBS firmware.

[XenPPC] [PATCH] Option to override firmware bootargs

2006-09-17 Thread Amos Waterland
I recently got a few hours on a Maple development board. I wanted to boot with an nfsroot, but I didn't want to risk changing the bootargs saved in the PIBS firmware. This patch lets Xen choose to override the bootargs supplied by the firmware if the user specifies `bootargs=builtin'.