Re: [hatari-devel] Patches for Linux loader support

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 3/20/19 11:10 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Tue, 19 Mar 2019 01:18:08 +0200
> schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Attached is patch series that would add --lilo option support.
>
> Sounds strange that you can only specify the kernel parameters via
> command line here.

They can be specified (only) in the configuration file.
This is same as with Aranym.


> What about providing three parameters:

At this stage I don't want to clutter Hatari command line
args more, while Hatari still doesn't emulate Falcon well
enough to run Linux.


>   --linux-kernel
>   --linux-initrd

File names for those are standardized, produced by kernel
build procedure.

User has multiple options for handling different files:
- symlinking them
- changing their names from lilo.cfg
- having several versions of lilo.cfg
- having different files in different dirs and running Hatari
  from there (lilo.cfg filenames are without a path)


>   --linux-params

(Unlike with Aranym) user *can* give additional kernel command
line args with the --lilo option.  If there are no args specified
in the config file, user actually specifies all of them with --lilo,
but I would expect users to normally have at least something in conf
file "Args" field.


> ... or something similar?

Extra options can be added later if needed.

But they need to be something that can be documented well
in the Hatari help output.  For now I feel more comfortable
doing that (in length) in the example lilo.cfg file.


	- Eero