[ENH] Command-line argument access in the image

[Brian Rice]

Actually, I realized and/or remembered that --load calls are  
processed before --eval expressions (in "Image  
handleStandardCommandOptions"). So:

slate --load src/mobius/init.slate --eval fullCleanBootstrap.

will currently do a basic bootstrap for you (I just tested this). You  
could modify fullCleanBootstrap to automate extra things like  
launching the new VM and image... I suppose.

On Dec 28, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Brian Rice wrote:

> On Dec 28, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Jeff Sparkes wrote:
>
>> I'd like to also see a --dump argument so that the bootstrap would  
>> then become:
>>   ./vm --load $(mobiusdir)/init.slate --dump slate.image
>> The last line of init.slate would call the fullCleanBootStrap method.
>
> --dump would have to be processed by the bootstrapping code itself.  
> I think this needs to be specified better, since there are a lot of  
> ways to do this and I'm not sure yet which is best overall. I'll  
> think it over, thanks.
>
> Also, don't forget that the bootstrap is actually now just "make  
> newboot", followed by "./vm.new <endianness>.new.image". We do have  
> some automation.

--
-Brian
http://tunes.org/~water/brice.vcf

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