Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:36:32 +0000 From: "Hope, Paco" <pacohope@amazon.co.uk> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, Jeremiah Lott <jlott@averesystems.com>, "freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org" <freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: amazon/xen... any way at all to pass a message/signal/semaphoere/morse-code to the boot loader? Message-ID: <8D2CD9E6-C8B5-45B3-B709-BC249A32C22F@amazon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7da73676-335a-67ca-0cc7-2df8a8ad4661@freebsd.org> References: <bf761b5c-63ad-bb14-4a9b-4e1fedced5bd@freebsd.org> <0100015b6070c546-05c6cf24-36e1-487f-be5e-b2bb6efd4472-000000@email.amazonses.com> <CAK-wPOifEdC46G%2Bd5g3BPWqSn87Sr3Fsti5k70X1F=C-=oNGMg@mail.gmail.com> <CANG7ib-S98DuDfoESrV8bBQCOvz_mytzrF-K7k=q6LcfqAyqfw@mail.gmail.com> <7da73676-335a-67ca-0cc7-2df8a8ad4661@freebsd.org>
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