[coyotos-dev] Updating coyqemu

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 25/02/2008, at 13.06, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>coyqemu was a nice hack, but it turns out not to generalize well for
>non-multiboot targets. If you don't have something comparable to the
>grub MODUEL command, it doesn't work very well.
>
>We now have a way (coymerge) to embed the boot image easily into the
>kernel binary file, and *that* technique will work reliably on all
>platforms (including multiboot).
>
>I would like to have a platform-neutral way to generate test images,
>reducing the platform-specific magic down to "now that I have that image
>built, how do I get it running.
>
>I therefore want to change the coyqemu to assume that coymerge has
>already been run. Instead of loading a mkimage.out file, it will load a
>mkimage.merge file (or whatever) that is the combination of the kernel
>binary with the mkimage.out. It will simply write this file to /coyotos
>on the boot floppy, and it will no longer use a module command at all.
>
>Any objections?

No objections. I think this change should be reflected in the developer
guide.

val