From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:40:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4660924A.2070009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466087CF.70708@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> +Protocol: 2.07+
>> +
>> + A pointer to data that is specific to hardware subarch
>>
>
> Do we care particularly? If 8 bytes is enough for the subarch, do we
> care whether its a pointer or literal? After all, this is just a private
> channel between the bootloader and some subarch-specific piece of code
> in the kernel.
>
I see two options: either we make it a pointer *and a length* so that a
loader can reshuffle it at will (that also implies no absolute pointers
within the data), or it's an opaque cookie anyway.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-25 15:06 Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-25 16:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-26 10:18 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-26 20:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27 0:10 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-27 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-26 23:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-27 0:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-27 0:19 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-30 23:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-31 8:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-06-01 20:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-01 21:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-01 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 0:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 0:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 1:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 1:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-02 1:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
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