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From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: 759018@bugs.debian.org, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Introduce specification for x86 pv bootloader chainloading paths/formats.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:17:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413879448.20604.30.camel@hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409343270-2375-1-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk>

On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 21:14 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> In order to support pvgrub (or other bootloader) from dom0 chainloading a
> pvgrub (or other) from within the domU filesystem we need a standard for where
> the stage 1 bootloader should look and what it should expect to find there.
> 
> Add a document along those lines.
> 
> This is currently x86-specific since it is expected that other new architecures
> (including ARM) will either not need to implement this due to the existence of
> more generic specifications for that arch (e.g. the ARM VM spec) or will update
> this document in due course.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> Cc: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
> Cc: 759018@bugs.debian.org

On IRC Ian J said:
(16:52:37) ijc: Diziet: Did you (intend to) ack <1409343270-2375-1-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk>?
(16:55:14) Diziet: ijc: I'm sure I intended to ack that, sorry.
(16:55:42) ijc: Will you or can I take the above as one?
(16:57:48) Diziet: ijc: Please do take it as an ack.

So I have fabricated an Ack and applied.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-29 20:14 [PATCH v2] docs: Introduce specification for x86 pv bootloader chainloading paths/formats Ian Campbell
2014-10-21  8:17 ` Ian Campbell [this message]

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