Re: [XenPPC] Re: New domain builder in xen-unstable

[Brendan Cully <brendan@cs.ubc.ca>]

On Tuesday, 06 March 2007 at 14:56, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 17:08 +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > xc_linux_build() is still provided in the 'new world' and is still
> > used by xend. For ia64/x86 it is now a thin wrapper around Gerd's new
> > domain-building infrastructure. For ppc you can continue to have your
> > very own version under libxc/powerpc if you want to, and not use
> > Gerd's new domain-building infrastructure. But the elf code that you
> > rely on is going away, so you need to move to using libelf, which I'm
> > sure Gerd can give you some pointers about. 
> 
> Hi Keir, it turns out I was confused about libxc, and we were depending
> on the just-removed ELF loader. I'm fixing that now; please give me a
> heads-up on the 3.0.5 release so I'm not caught out.
> 
> Aside from that, it seems that xc_linux_build() is actually not called
> by anybody any longer. It looks like changeset a20ec270998b (from
> Brendan) removed the call from xc.c, replacing it with a call to the
> "new style" domain builder via xc_dom_linux_build().
> 
> The new domain builder infrastructure is not flexible enough for
> PowerPC, so we're sticking with our own xc_linux_build(). It sounded
> before like that would be possible, so I assume a20ec270998b was just an
> oversight?

I have to admit, I haven't really looked at how other architectures
are overriding the domain building stuff. Would it be possible to
override xc_dom_linux_build to grab the couple of extra parameters
you need (cmdline, features) from dom and pass them to your existing
xc_linux_build? Then you can pass back elfnotes to python at your
convenience, if/when it makes sense.