From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>,
grub-devel@gnu.org, keir@xen.org,
stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
roy.franz@linaro.org, ning.sun@intel.com,
david.vrabel@citrix.com, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
phcoder@gmail.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 16/18] efi: create efi_exit_boot()
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:17:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427462228.13935.137.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150327124346.GK8294@olila.local.net-space.pl>
On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 13:43 +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:10:56PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 27.03.15 at 13:00, <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > Additionally, efi_start()
> > > is architecture independent and efi_multiboot2() is x86 only and it should
> > > live in x86 files.
> >
> > Is that really the case? Looking at the grub2 sources I see support
> > for other than x86...
>
> Well... In theory multiboot protocol was designed as arch independet.
> However, docs define more precisely stuff for i386 and MIPS (multiboot2
> protocol only). As I know we do not care about MIPS. Additionally, so
> called muliboot protocol for ARM is completely different thing then
> multiboot protocols mentioned above
The ARM multiboot DT thing fits into the multiboot1 "namespace", since
it is unlikely there will ever be an ARM multiboot1.
It's possible that someone might spec and implement multiboot2 for ARM
as well, although whether than has any impact on the comments made in
this threadlet I've no idea..
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-27 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-30 17:54 [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 01/18] x86/boot/reloc: mask out MBI_BOOTDEV from mbi flags Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:59 ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 02/18] x86/boot/reloc: create generic alloc and copy functions Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 18:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-03 10:13 ` Jan Beulich
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 03/18] x86/boot: use %ecx instead of %eax Daniel Kiper
2015-02-03 10:02 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-03 17:43 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 04/18] xen/x86: add multiboot2 protocol support Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 18:11 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-20 16:06 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 10:56 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 11:20 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 12:22 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 12:42 ` Jan Beulich
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 05/18] efi: split efi_enabled to efi_platform and efi_loader Daniel Kiper
2015-02-20 16:17 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 13:32 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 13:43 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 13:53 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-03-27 14:04 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 14:09 ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-03-27 14:19 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 14:21 ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-03-02 17:21 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-03-02 18:43 ` Roy Franz
2015-03-02 23:40 ` Roy Franz
2015-03-03 8:49 ` Jan Beulich
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 06/18] x86: remove commented out stale references to efi_enabled Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 07/18] efi: run EFI specific code on EFI platform only Daniel Kiper
2015-02-20 16:47 ` Jan Beulich
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 08/18] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code Daniel Kiper
2015-03-02 16:14 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 11:14 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 11:46 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 11:54 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 09/18] efi: create efi_init() Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 10/18] efi: create efi_console_set_mode() Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 11/18] efi: create efi_get_gop() Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 12/18] efi: create efi_find_gop_mode() Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 13/18] efi: create efi_tables() Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 14/18] efi: create efi_variables() Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 15/18] efi: create efi_set_gop_mode() Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 16/18] efi: create efi_exit_boot() Daniel Kiper
2015-03-02 16:45 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 12:00 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 12:10 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 12:43 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 13:17 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 17/18] x86/efi: create new early memory allocator Daniel Kiper
2015-03-02 17:23 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-02 20:25 ` Roy Franz
2015-03-03 8:04 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-03 9:39 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 12:57 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 13:35 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 14:28 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 17:54 ` [PATCH 18/18] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 19:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-01-30 23:43 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-01-31 0:47 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-10 21:27 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-02-10 22:41 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-11 8:20 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-14 17:23 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-02-15 21:00 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-17 10:32 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-17 12:47 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 13:06 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 13:36 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 14:26 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 14:34 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 14:57 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 15:06 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-27 15:10 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-01-30 18:04 ` [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support Daniel Kiper
2015-01-31 7:22 ` João Jerónimo
2015-02-02 9:28 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-03 17:14 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-02-04 9:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-04 9:51 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-05 10:59 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-05 11:50 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-02-05 12:00 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-09 17:59 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-02-10 9:05 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-03 12:10 ` Ian Campbell
2015-03-03 12:36 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-03 12:39 ` Ian Campbell
2015-03-03 12:51 ` Daniel Kiper
2015-03-27 10:59 ` Daniel Kiper
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