From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/HVMlite: document the BSP/AP boot ABI Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:21:42 +0000 Message-ID: <56A5F736.3070901@citrix.com> References: <1453717009-91577-1-git-send-email-royger@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aNeHL-0007z3-7u for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:21:47 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1453717009-91577-1-git-send-email-royger@FreeBSD.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Roger Pau Monne , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Tim Deegan , Ian Jackson , Ian Campbell , Jan Beulich , Roger Pau Monne List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 25/01/16 10:16, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > From: Roger Pau Monne > > The discussion in [1] lead to an agreement of the missing pieces in PVH > (or HVM without a device-model) in order to progress with it's > implementation. > > One of the missing pieces is a new boot ABI, that replaces the PV boot > ABI. The aim of this new boot ABI is to remove the limitations of the > PV boot ABI, that are no longer present when using auto-translated > guests. The new boot protocol should allow to use the same entry point > for both 32bit and 64bit guests, and let the guest choose it's bitness I would add "and paging mode" here, as it is just as important as bitness. Otherwise, Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper