From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:25:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d51m77ry.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177909434.30071.216.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Rusty Russell's message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:03:54 +1000")
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Rusty Russell wrote:
>> >
>> > Dammit, Eric, you spend a lot of time using words like "insane" where
>> > you mean we didn't do everything all at once.
>> >
>> > It's *not* clear that using %esi is sane, but nothing in the current
>> > code prevents that.
>>
>> Why not?
>
> (I assume you mean why isn't it clear?)
>
> Because VMI uses the presence of a ROM to indicate it's not native. KVM
> uses a magic MSR IIRC.
Reasonable, if you don't mid a little hardware emulation.
> I think it makes sense for lguest to change over, tho. Patches welcome
> 8)
Sure.
Peter do we want to use the bootloader byte and assign lguest it's own
bootloader type or do we want to add another field specific to
paravirtualized environments?
Eric
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2007-04-29 15:11 ` [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 3:03 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-04-30 4:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-30 5:03 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-04-30 5:25 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-04-30 16:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-04-30 16:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 15:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-01 3:38 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-05-01 3:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 3:59 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-01 4:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 4:50 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-05-01 5:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 6:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 5:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-05-01 6:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 7:34 ` Rusty Russell
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2007-05-01 8:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-04-30 22:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-04-30 22:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-04-30 22:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-30 23:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-04-30 23:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-30 23:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-01 2:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-02 9:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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2007-05-02 15:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-05-02 20:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-02 21:01 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-05-02 21:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-02 21:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-05-02 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-02 23:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03 4:50 ` Vivek Goyal
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2007-05-03 6:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-03 7:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-05-03 13:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-03 16:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-05-08 17:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-08 17:24 ` Vivek Goyal
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2007-05-08 17:33 ` yhlu
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2007-05-08 19:01 ` yhlu
2007-05-08 19:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-08 22:00 ` yhlu
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2007-05-08 22:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2007-05-08 22:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-08 22:41 ` yhlu
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2007-05-08 23:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-09 1:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-09 5:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-09 5:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-09 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-09 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-09 5:48 ` yhlu
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2007-05-09 5:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-09 5:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-09 10:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-09 19:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2007-05-10 0:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-09 7:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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2007-05-09 11:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2007-05-08 17:34 ` yhlu
2007-05-03 2:01 ` Rusty Russell
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