On 26/04/13 18:05, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 26.04.2013, at 18:01, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > >> On 26/04/13 17:48, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >>>> So I suggest to go with this patch and implement later on what we >>>> agree upon? >>> >>> I don't see how having "first device we find" is any better than a >>> rushed interface we need to agree on right before 1.5 hard freeze. >> >> Exactly, find first device isnt better ;-) >> See, the current code chooses the first subchannel that matches. This >> boils down to "a random disk" as soon as you have more than one. >> >> With this patch the user can at least specify the devno of the disk.It >> even works out of the box with libvirt. >> >> Let's just release 1.5 with the very simple one and then go for something >> awesome in the next version. >> >> Exactly - and having a list is more in the awesome area. Beiing able to >> specify the first disk and pass that in a register to the bios is of >> course not a full-features interface, but it works and can be changed. > > My main concern is backwards compatibility. If we introduce a command line > interface now, we have to support it forever. I'd rather only support one > interface, rather than 2 out of which one is only legacy for 1.5 > compatibility.
The cool thing is, that we dont introduce a command line interface in this patch. We just use the existing bootindex.
