From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/16] configure: #define SEABIOS_PATH and OVMF_PATH
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 15:55:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160308155513.GH31271@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160303170300.GM7532@perard.uk.xensource.com>
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:03:00PM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:51:36AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 02:56:01PM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > > Those paths are to be used by libxl, in order to load the firmware in
> > > memory. If a system path is not define, then this default to the Xen
> > > firmware directory.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> > >
> >
> > There is already --with-system-seabios and --with-system-ovmf that you
> > can use.
>
> The path generated by --with-system-seabios is only for the benefit of the
> Makefiles. With this patch, I'm exporting the value to the .c files. And in
> the case where --with-system-* is not used, it provide a default path to
> where we are going to install the firmware we compiled.
>
I see. SEABIOS_PATH and OVMF_PATH are already defined in Tools.mk.in.
This approach is fine then.
Wei.
> --
> Anthony PERARD
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-25 14:55 [PATCH v3 00/16] Load BIOS via toolstack instead of been embedded in hvmloader Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:55 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] libxc: Rework extra module initialisation Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 16:27 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] libxc: Load BIOS and ACPI table into guest memory Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 16:57 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] configure: #define SEABIOS_PATH and OVMF_PATH Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 17:03 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-08 15:55 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] firmware/makefile: install BIOS and ACPI blob Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 16:31 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 15:44 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] libxl: Load guest BIOS from file Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 17:16 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] libxl: Load guest ACPI table " Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 11:51 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-03 17:12 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-08 15:55 ` Wei Liu
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] hvmloader: Grab the hvm_start_info pointer Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 16:37 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 16:48 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] hvmloader: Locate the BIOS blob Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 16:56 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 16:21 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] hvmloader: Check modules whereabouts Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 16:58 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 16:00 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-03 16:18 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 16:34 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] hvmloader: Load SeaBIOS from hvm_start_info modules Anthony PERARD
2016-02-29 17:02 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 16:15 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] hvmloader: Load OVMF from modules Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 17:39 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-05 18:05 ` Wei Liu
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] hvmloader: Specific bios_load function required Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:07 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] hvmloader: Load ACPI tables from hvm_start_info module Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:17 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 17:59 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-04 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-08 11:15 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] hvmloader: Compile out the qemu-xen ACPI tables Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:19 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] hvmloader: Always build-in SeaBIOS and OVMF loader Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:20 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-25 14:56 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] hvmloader: do not depend on SEABIOS_PATH or OVMF_PATH Anthony PERARD
2016-03-01 16:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-03 11:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-02-25 16:16 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] Load BIOS via toolstack instead of been embedded in hvmloader Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-25 16:43 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-03 18:03 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-04 10:57 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-08 11:21 ` Anthony PERARD
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