[PATCH] HVM SMBIOS v2 0/5

[PATCH] HVM SMBIOS v2 0/5

[Andrew D. Ball]

The following patches are a cleaned up version of the HVM SMBIOS
patches I submitted last Friday.

I apologize if these are posted twice -- the first time I tried to send 
them I didn't see them show up after 40 minutes...

Differences include

(1) SMBIOS is no longer optional for HVM domU's.
(2) The refactoring I did of hvmloader wasn't really necessary, so I
got rid of it.
(3) The patches have been tested on changeset

10671:b20580cf7fc1bfe5119597bb5b576cdd020551d5

(4) The versions of strcpy() and strncpy() I wrote in util.c now
behave properly: strncpy() pads the destination string with NULs until
its size limit is reached and both strcpy() and strncpy() return the
address of the destination string.

Peace.
Andrew

Re: [PATCH] HVM SMBIOS v2 0/5

[Keir Fraser]

On 12/7/06 10:19 pm, "Andrew D. Ball" <aball@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> The following patches are a cleaned up version of the HVM SMBIOS
> patches I submitted last Friday.
> 
> I apologize if these are posted twice -- the first time I tried to send
> them I didn't see them show up after 40 minutes...

These patches need rebasing to changeset 10948 or after. The changes I made
there should make your patchset rather smaller!

The main thing is to get rid of your additions to hvm_info_table:
 1. Uuid can be got via hypercall_xen_version(XENVER_guest_handle)
 2. Version info can be got via other XENVER_ commands
 3. Memsize can roughly be worked out from the e820 table

I see you add a util.c -- I actually also made the same cleanup in my
changeset although I think you add another couple of functions.

Hopefully the way to use the hypercalls is obvious from the above changeset.
I added a simple example to hvmloader.c:init_hypercalls() to print version
information.

 Thanks,
 Keir

[PATCH] HVM SMBIOS v2 0/5

[aball]

The following patches are a cleaned up version of the HVM SMBIOS
patches I submitted last Friday.

Differences include

(1) SMBIOS is no longer optional for HVM domU's.
(2) The refactoring I did of hvmloader wasn't really necessary, so I
got rid of it.
(3) The patches have been tested on changeset

10671:b20580cf7fc1bfe5119597bb5b576cdd020551d5

(4) The versions of strcpy() and strncpy() I wrote in util.c now
behave properly: strncpy() pads the destination string with NULs until
its size limit is reached and both strcpy() and strncpy() return the
address of the destination string.

Peace.
Andrew