Re: [Balloon] kernel "build" settings

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Author: Colin Tuckley
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To: david, Nick Bane
CC: Balloon
Subject: Re: [Balloon] kernel "build" settings
David Bisset wrote:

> I'm not sure if this will help, but the code does(has) work(ed) OK as I use
> this feature on the Hydra build. Of course it might break when compiled
> differently, but it does pick up the build type from the saved params file
> at boot and passes the parameter to Linux which then uses this correctly.


Ok, I've looked at this a bit more;

In balloon.h I have:

#define PARAMS_FILE "/boot/boot.conf"

I'm going to assume that this means partition=boot file=boot.conf, if that
isn't correct then thats probably my problem because I don't have a
/boot/boot.conf in my root file system.

Now PARAMS_FILE is only used in 2 places and only one of them is a read, in
command_params_load. There are no direct calls to that, but since it's a
"command" I assume there is some other way of invoking it which I haven't found.

Can someone detail the path through the code for the linux-boot sequence or
otherwise explain how it's supposed to work.

Colin

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