Subject: Re: root= vs. boodev=
To: None <port-xen@NetBSD.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/28/2007 22:06:18
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:34:50PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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,

Shouldn't this be 5 for the second case?


>                                     sizeof(xcp->xcp_bootdev));
>                         break;