From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: keir@xen.org, tim@xen.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>,
stefano.stabellini@citrix.com, linaro-uefi@lists.linaro.org,
fu.wei@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 01/12] Create efi-shared.[ch], and move string functions
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:04:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1406563445.17854.14.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D68FBB0200007800026C45@mail.emea.novell.com>
On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 17:00 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 28.07.14 at 17:56, <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 16:52 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> > Even if not it looks like ~20K of mostly __init stuff, which doesn't
> >> > seem like the end of the world, especially given that more and more
> >> > toolstacks do support EFI with time.
> >>
> >> Right now - with the runtime code not moved over yet - it's
> >> mostly __init. Plus (with the linker not being able to discard that
> >> code) it carries the risk of having references to symbols that
> >> don't exist in the non-EFI build.
> >
> > Perhaps we can put the relevant code into efi specific sections and DTRT
> > in xen.lds.S?
>
> Maybe it could be made work, but I'd be wary of linker version issues
> then.
Rather than arch .c files including common .c (or .inc) files how about
making xen/arch/*/efi/Makefile link xen/commmon/efi/built-in.o into it's
own built-in.o instead of having xen/common/Makefile do it like would
normally happen?
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-28 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-22 0:43 [PATCH V2 00/12] arm64 EFI stub Roy Franz
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 01/12] Create efi-shared.[ch], and move string functions Roy Franz
2014-07-23 16:31 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-28 15:41 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-28 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-28 15:56 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-28 16:00 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-28 16:04 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2014-07-28 16:10 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-06 23:55 ` Roy Franz
2014-08-07 6:17 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-09 0:27 ` Roy Franz
2014-08-06 23:42 ` Roy Franz
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 02/12] rename printErrMsg to PrintErrMesgExit Roy Franz
2014-07-23 16:33 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 03/12] Refactor get_parent_handle for sharing Roy Franz
2014-07-23 16:37 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 04/12] Refactor read_file() so it can be shared Roy Franz
2014-07-24 7:09 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-06 18:38 ` Roy Franz
2014-08-07 6:20 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-07 17:26 ` Roy Franz
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 05/12] replace split_value() with truncate_string() Roy Franz
2014-07-24 7:19 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-06 22:37 ` Roy Franz
2014-08-07 6:24 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-18 23:38 ` Roy Franz
2014-08-19 12:56 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 06/12] add read_config_file() function for XEN EFI config file Roy Franz
2014-07-24 7:32 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-06 22:42 ` Roy Franz
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 07/12] create handle_cmdline() function Roy Franz
2014-07-24 7:36 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-28 15:44 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-28 15:57 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 08/12] Refactor get_argv() for sharing Roy Franz
2014-07-24 7:38 ` Jan Beulich
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 09/12] Move shared EFI functions to efi-shared.c Roy Franz
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 10/12] add arm64 cache flushing code from linux Roy Franz
2014-07-28 15:53 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-28 16:24 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 11/12] Add fdt_create_empty_tree() function Roy Franz
2014-07-22 16:36 ` [Linaro-uefi] " Julien Grall
2014-07-22 17:12 ` Roy Franz
2014-07-22 17:15 ` Julien Grall
2014-07-23 9:58 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-23 16:15 ` Roy Franz
2014-07-22 0:43 ` [PATCH V2 12/12] Add EFI stub for arm64 Roy Franz
2014-07-29 9:46 ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-28 15:30 ` [PATCH V2 00/12] arm64 EFI stub Ian Campbell
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