From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:42:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4660BCF8.7000208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4660BBDF.1040007@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Well, I think we can safely say that its something that's only
> meaningful in 32/64-bit mode, so we aren't constrained by the real-mode
> address space.
>
> One of my goals in this project is to make the boot image, in some way,
> completely define which memory it needs it get started. That means that
> the boot loader can either place things knowing they'll avoid the boot
> image and/or definitively know that the image is unloadable.
>
> So I don't think its strictly necessary to pre-define what memory this
> object can use, since I think it can be safely determined dynamically.
>
That's a method of defining the memory space.
I think the current definition is suitable for entering at the 16-bit
entry point.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-02 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-25 15:06 Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-25 16:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-25 16:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-26 10:18 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-26 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27 0:10 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-27 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-27 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27 0:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-27 0:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27 0:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-30 23:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-31 8:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-31 8:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-06-01 20:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-01 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 0:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 0:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-02 0:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 1:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 1:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 1:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
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