On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 10:16:26AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > That's fine with me. Marc - I think qemu_vmlinux_setup() in SeaBIOS
> > with the following would work:
> >
> > void qemu_vmlinux_setup(void)
> > {
> > u32 kernel_size;
> > qemu_cfg_read_entry(&kernel_size, QEMU_CFG_KERNEL_SIZE,
> > sizeof(kernel_size));
> > if (kernel_size)
> > boot_add_qemu_vmlinux("QEMU Kernel image", 0);
> > }
>
> It isn't that simple. We also have support for multiboot kernels (using
> multiboot.bin option rom). So when doing this you need to be prepared
> to find a multiboot kernel in fw_cfg.
Is there some way to detect if it's a multiboot kernel? If so,
seabios can just fall back to using multiboot.bin.
-Kevin
