> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:07 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Actually it could be useful for places when one wants to have more > > control over boot, like emulators which can bootstrap kernels like > > qemu... it can also pass args. It could allow automatic testing of > > the > > same image with different boot options. > > > > See, That's what I was thinking with my attempt to add arguments- > I gave up only because I couldn't figure out an appropriate place to > put it (and its required string parsing functions, of course)- > start.c seemed to have too much of a minimalist air about it, but it > felt like the best place. > If anyone would like, I'd be glad to add cmdline support! Well zbeos should have minimal str*(), are you sure it's needed ? Once start.c has set up bss and called ctors it should be safe to call them I think. You can always just assign a global from start.c and use it later on. François.