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From: "Sebastian Herbszt" <herbszt@gmx.de>
To: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>, "Avi Kivity" <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: bios: Put AP boot up code to 0x1000
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:15:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <034601c8f352$b6e073d0$0201a8c0@zeug> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200807311043.20880.sheng.yang@intel.com

Yang, Sheng wrote:

> Rather than 0x10000, which can be overrided by userspace program like 
> grub.

Could you please explain this problem?
If i don't misunderstand this smp_ap_boot_code_start from rombios32start.S
gets copied to AP_BOOT_CODE and then there is a broadcast INIT and SIPI.
After the code is run it's not used anymore so there should be no need to care
where it's located.

- Sebastian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31  2:43 [PATCH] kvm: bios: Put AP boot up code to 0x1000 Yang, Sheng
2008-07-31  6:00 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-07-31  6:41   ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-31  9:09     ` Yang, Sheng
2008-07-31  9:46       ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-01 15:49         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-31 21:15 ` Sebastian Herbszt [this message]
2008-08-01  1:19   ` Yang, Sheng
2008-08-02 19:30     ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-05  8:14       ` Yang, Sheng
2008-08-06 21:56         ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-10  7:50           ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-13 23:00             ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-14  6:08               ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-17 22:35             ` [PATCH] kvm: bios: end AP boot code execution in rombios Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-18  2:33               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-18  2:45                 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-08-18 10:21                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-18 10:22               ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-19 23:06                 ` Sebastian Herbszt

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