From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762105AbXFBAiL (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:38:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754769AbXFBAh5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:37:57 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:41323 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754246AbXFBAh4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:37:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4660BBDF.1040007@goop.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:37:51 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Rusty Russell , Chris Wright , Virtualization Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops References: <4656FB8F.4090604@goop.org> <466087CF.70708@goop.org> <4660924A.2070009@zytor.com> <466093E3.4010701@goop.org> <46609636.4050208@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <46609636.4050208@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Well, if we define is as a movable object then it has to be treated as > such. It's a protocol definition issue. If we define it opaque, though > -- of for that matter, if we don't -- we should define what memory it > can live in, though. Right now, the only "available" memory we have is > end of setup to 0xa0000; the command line is defined to be allocated > from this memory. > Well, I think we can safely say that its something that's only meaningful in 32/64-bit mode, so we aren't constrained by the real-mode address space. One of my goals in this project is to make the boot image, in some way, completely define which memory it needs it get started. That means that the boot loader can either place things knowing they'll avoid the boot image and/or definitively know that the image is unloadable. So I don't think its strictly necessary to pre-define what memory this object can use, since I think it can be safely determined dynamically. J