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on 24/10/2011 21:23 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Monday, October 24, 2011 12:25:09 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> Also, perhaps edd_params_v3 and edd_params_v4 should inherit edd_params in some
>> "smarter" way to avoid verbatim duplicates.
> 
> Yeah, probably so.  We will probably never even use them anyway (just as we don't
> use edd_packet_v3 even though we could probably make use of it to avoid some
> bounce buffering in the loader).
> 
>> Other than these issues the patch looks great!
>> Perhaps later we could do detailed definitions for things like interface paths for
>> various cases, etc.
> 
> I doubt we will ever use them.

In theory we could pass that information from loader to kernel, so that in a
booted system we could try to build a mapping between kernel disks and bios disks,
with the boot disk potentially being of the most interest.

-- 
Andriy Gapon