Re: root= vs. boodev=

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:42:19PM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > it's 'bootdev='
> 
> our multiboot support also uses root= . Could NetBSD/Xen support this for
> consistency?

Yes, it's easy:
--- xen_machdep.c       22 Jan 2006 20:15:51 -0000      1.16
+++ xen_machdep.c       18 Jun 2007 14:34:10 -0000
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@
 
                switch (what) {
                case XEN_PARSE_BOOTDEV:
-                       if (strncasecmp(opt, "bootdev=", 8) == 0)
+                       if (strncasecmp(opt, "bootdev=", 8) == 0 ||
+                           strncasecmp(opt, "root=", 5) == 0)
                                strncpy(xcp->xcp_bootdev, opt + 8,
                                    sizeof(xcp->xcp_bootdev));
                        break;

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           
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