From: pbonzini@redhat.com (Paolo Bonzini)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC] ARM VM System Sepcification
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:10:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <531865C5.6070502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140306120449.GA29916@mal.justgohome.co.uk>
Il 06/03/2014 13:04, Robie Basak ha scritto:
> So, for example, the guest OS might, on bootloader or kernel upgrade,
> completely replace the boot mechanism, dropping the removable path and
> replacing it with a fixed disk arrangement, setting boot variables
> appropriately, and assume that it can reboot and everything will
> continue to work.
It can, but at the same time it had better keep the fallback method
working, where fixed media are treated like removable ones.
In practice, both Linux distributions and Windows do that.
> This is why I'm suggesting that the specification mandate that the guest
> OS shipped in a "portable disk image" as defined by the spec must not
> make this assumption.
Yeah, that's fine to specify.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-06 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-26 18:34 [RFC] ARM VM System Sepcification Christoffer Dall
[not found] ` < CACxGe6tjuytsYAn6Hadf0AK+REzHgRydgbHPafL8+Sdtd_tMUA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-26 19:27 ` Christopher Covington
2014-02-26 19:51 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-02-27 13:12 ` Christopher Covington
2014-02-27 16:02 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-03-01 15:41 ` Grant Likely
2014-02-26 19:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-26 20:05 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-02-26 20:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` < CABGGisxHOVqLcG7hVAuAzdeic41KWSLLBSjQLSJQcjTXLhNCow@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-26 21:56 ` Rob Herring
2014-02-26 22:21 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-02-27 7:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-27 10:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-01 19:12 ` Grant Likely
2014-02-27 9:35 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-02-26 20:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-26 20:20 ` Peter Maydell
2014-02-26 21:48 ` Leif Lindholm
2014-02-26 22:25 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-03-01 19:20 ` Grant Likely
2014-02-27 12:31 ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-02-27 14:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-27 14:24 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-27 19:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-28 0:05 ` Alexander Graf
2014-02-28 10:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-02-28 14:44 ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-03-01 19:25 ` Grant Likely
2014-02-26 22:49 ` Rob Herring
2014-02-26 22:54 ` Peter Maydell
2014-02-26 23:08 ` Rob Herring
2014-02-26 23:14 ` Peter Maydell
2014-02-27 4:06 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-02-27 11:36 ` Robie Basak
2014-02-26 23:13 ` Christopher Covington
2014-02-26 21:05 ` Michael Hudson-Doyle
2014-02-26 21:08 ` Christoffer Dall
[not found] ` <CACxGe6tjuytsYAn6Hadf0AK+REzHgRydgbHPafL8+Sdtd_tMUA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-26 22:47 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-02-27 12:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2014-03-01 19:54 ` Grant Likely
2014-03-02 9:29 ` Peter Maydell
2014-02-27 12:55 ` Peter Maydell
2014-02-27 0:41 ` Blibbet
[not found] ` <20140226134251.0436294e@anubis.ausil.us>
[not found] ` <CAMJs5B9bCs8Oz2Zg4UK--A3H4AaZRPMwy7SpxYom-1--_=qhBQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20140226151536.58154704@anubis.ausil.us>
2014-02-27 17:34 ` Grant Likely
2014-03-01 15:27 ` Grant Likely
2014-03-03 1:13 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-03-06 8:52 ` Robie Basak
2014-03-06 9:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-06 11:44 ` Laszlo Ersek
2014-03-06 12:04 ` Robie Basak
2014-03-06 12:10 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-03-07 12:24 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` < 20140322010206.GF25519@cbox>
2014-03-22 2:29 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-03-22 8:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-23 3:19 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-03-23 3:29 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-03-24 9:57 ` Robie Basak
2014-03-24 10:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-22 12:23 ` Grant Likely
2014-03-22 19:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-22 22:35 ` Grant Likely
2014-03-22 23:38 ` Michael Casadevall
2014-03-23 0:33 ` Laszlo Ersek
2014-03-23 3:23 ` Christoffer Dall
2014-03-24 9:03 ` Ian Campbell
2014-03-24 10:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-24 10:47 ` Ian Campbell
2014-03-24 12:13 ` Grant Likely
2014-03-24 12:16 ` Ian Campbell
2014-03-07 12:19 ` Grant Likely
2014-03-08 11:41 ` Michael Casadevall
2014-03-08 20:41 ` Laszlo Ersek
2014-03-07 12:09 ` Grant Likely
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