From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>,
stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
cardoe@cardoe.com, pgnet.dev@gmail.com, ning.sun@intel.com,
david.vrabel@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
qiaowei.ren@intel.com, richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com,
gang.wei@intel.com, fu.wei@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/16 - RFC] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 13:06:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160603170614.GG25496@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5751698302000078000F177B@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 03:26:59AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 02.06.16 at 18:12, <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:34:28AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 01.06.16 at 21:03, <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> > Hence, we are not able to get anything from EFI. Latter
> >> > means that we were booted via older multiboot2 version which shutdown
> >> > boot services.
> >>
> >> Hmm, that's certainly one of the possibilities, yes. I wonder then
> >> whether we wouldn't better do away with all of those output
> >> attempts then.
> >
> > This is one option. However, IMO, not nice. Maybe we should stay with
> > serial plus VGA on legacy BIOS platforms. Serials looks quite well
> > defined even on EFI platforms. However, if it is not available x86
> > out instruction should not do any harm. Though if we wish to increase
> > chance of reaching interested parties I would send error messages to
> > 0x3f8 and 0x2f8 at once. AFAICT, on many machines usually at least one
> > if not both standard/legacy serial ports are available.
>
> On many _older_ machines you mean. Any new machines I got
> hold of in the last couple of years didn't have any serial ports
> anymore (some still have them implemented in the LPC, but not
> wired through, but legacy free systems wouldn't have them at all
> anymore).
And there are also new EFI machines that have no VGA whatsoever but
only serial.
>
> Jan
>
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Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-15 12:33 [PATCH v3 00/16] x86: multiboot2 protocol support Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] x86/boot: do not create unwind tables Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 15:45 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] x86: zero BSS using stosl instead of stosb Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 13:57 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-15 15:48 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] x86/boot: call reloc() using cdecl calling convention Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 15:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-17 8:41 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-17 9:30 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-24 8:42 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] x86/boot/reloc: create generic alloc and copy functions Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] x86/boot: use %ecx instead of %eax Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] x86/boot/reloc: Rename some variables and rearrange code a bit Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] x86/boot: create *.lnk files with linker script Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 14:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-05-24 9:05 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-24 12:28 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-24 12:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 9:06 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-17 10:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 10:34 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support Daniel Kiper
2016-05-24 15:46 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 16:34 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-26 10:28 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-27 8:08 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-27 8:13 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-27 8:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-27 8:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] efi: explicitly define efi struct in xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 7:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 16:45 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 8:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 15:07 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-05 18:33 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-06 6:55 ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-06 10:27 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-06 12:00 ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-06 12:55 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] efi: create efi_enabled() Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 7:20 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 17:15 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-26 10:31 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-27 8:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 15:23 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-01 15:41 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:28 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:06 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 7:53 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 19:07 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 8:31 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 15:48 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-01 15:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:39 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 12/16 - RFC] x86/efi: create new early memory allocator Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 19:48 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 8:37 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 15:58 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-01 16:02 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:53 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 10:43 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 11:10 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 16:01 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-05 18:26 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-06 7:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-06 11:15 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 13/16 - RFC] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 9:32 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 10:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 21:02 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 9:02 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:03 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:34 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 16:12 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-03 9:26 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-03 17:06 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] x86/boot: implement early command line parser in C Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 10:33 ` Jan Beulich
2016-05-25 21:36 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-05-27 9:33 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-02 8:15 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 15/16 - RFC] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 10:48 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-15 12:33 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for relocatable images Daniel Kiper
2016-05-25 11:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 13:35 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-01 14:44 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-01 19:16 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-06-02 8:41 ` Jan Beulich
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