From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Subject: Re: New domain builder in xen-unstable Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:58:34 -0600 Message-ID: <1169830714.26668.9.camel@basalt> References: Reply-To: Hollis Blanchard Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser Cc: xen-ppc-devel , Gerd Hoffmann , Xen Development Mailing List , xen-ia64-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 13:43 +0000, Keir Fraser wrote: > Hi, > > This is a heads up, mainly to the PowerPC and IA64 folks, that Gerd's new > domain builder (including new Elf parser) is now checked into xen-unstable. > This has disabled the old builder and elf-parsing code which will shortly be > removed entirely. > > So far the new libelf has only been run-tested on x86, so... > > For IA64: most of the code is in place, but the new code needs some > run-testing and possibly some small fixups to get it working. > > For PPC: looks like you have your own domain builder, which you may or may > not decide to merge with the main code (it would be nice to!). Not sure what you mean by "our own domain builder"; we've been implementing xc_linux_build() for quite a while now (and thus integrated with xend). > Either way, > you *do* use the common elf parser, and so your domain builder code needs to > be changed to talk to Gerd's libelf. Gerd, what do we need to do to replace probe_elf()/load_funcs ? -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center