From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Introduce specification for x86 pv bootloader chainloading paths/formats. Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:17:28 +0100 Message-ID: <1413879448.20604.30.camel@hellion.org.uk> References: <1409343270-2375-1-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1409343270-2375-1-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org Cc: 759018@bugs.debian.org, Ian Jackson , Colin Watson List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 > Cc: Ian Jackson > Cc: Colin Watson > 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.