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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: move hvmloader to x86
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:47:10 +0000
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To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
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On 04/11/14 10:43, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ... as being more like a hypervisor extension into the guest than a
> part of the tool stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

I think this is a very sensible idea, but...

>
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ S:	Supported
>  L:	xen-devel@lists.xen.org 
>  F:	xen/arch/x86/
>  F:	xen/include/asm-x86/
> +F:	tools/firmware/hvmloader/

hvmloader as a binary is linked together with other bits in
tools/firmware, which form part of the x86 HVM boot path.

As a result, I would recommend this path being "tools/firmware/" to
include these other bits in being part of the x86 architecture code.

~Andrew

>  
>  X86 MEMORY MANAGEMENT
>  M:	Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
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