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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: move hvmloader to x86
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:47:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5458AEAE.9080804@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5458BBF30200007800044B69@mail.emea.novell.com>

On 04/11/14 10:43, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ... as being more like a hypervisor extension into the guest than a
> part of the tool stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

I think this is a very sensible idea, but...

>
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ S:	Supported
>  L:	xen-devel@lists.xen.org 
>  F:	xen/arch/x86/
>  F:	xen/include/asm-x86/
> +F:	tools/firmware/hvmloader/

hvmloader as a binary is linked together with other bits in
tools/firmware, which form part of the x86 HVM boot path.

As a result, I would recommend this path being "tools/firmware/" to
include these other bits in being part of the x86 architecture code.

~Andrew

>  
>  X86 MEMORY MANAGEMENT
>  M:	Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
>
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-04 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-04 10:43 [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: move hvmloader to x86 Jan Beulich
2014-11-04 10:44 ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-04 10:47 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-11-04 11:20   ` Jan Beulich
2014-11-04 11:29     ` Ian Campbell

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