From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 05/13] libxc: introduce a domain loader for HVM guest firmware
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:36:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558928A4.1070100@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55894303020000780008803D@mail.emea.novell.com>
El 23/06/15 a les 11.29, Jan Beulich ha escrit:
>>>> On 22.06.15 at 18:11, <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
>> Introduce a very simple (and dummy) domain loader to be used to load the
>> firmware (hvmloader) into HVM guests. Since hmvloader is just a 32bit elf
>> executable the loader is fairly simple.
>
> But hvmloader gets loaded fine today - why is this needed?
So that we can use the same set of xc_dom_* functions that we currently
use on x86 to build PV guests, instead of the crappy setup_guest stub
that we have in xc_hvm_build_x86.c.
As said in the cover letter, patches 1 to 7 aim at unifying the way HVM
and PV guests are created on x86.
Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-23 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-22 16:11 [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 01/13] libxc: split x86 HVM setup_guest into smaller logical functions Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 02/13] libxc: unify xc_dom_p2m_{host/guest} Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 03/13] libxc: introduce the notion of a container type Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 04/13] libxc: allow arch_setup_meminit to populate HVM domain memory Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-25 10:29 ` Wei Liu
2015-06-25 10:33 ` Wei Liu
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 05/13] libxc: introduce a domain loader for HVM guest firmware Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-23 9:29 ` Jan Beulich
2015-06-23 9:36 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2015-07-10 19:09 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 06/13] libxc: introduce a xc_dom_arch for hvm-3.0-x86_32 guests Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 07/13] libxl: switch HVM domain building to use xc_dom_* helpers Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 08/13] libxc: remove dead x86 HVM code Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 09/13] elfnotes: intorduce a new PHYS_ENTRY elfnote Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-23 9:35 ` Jan Beulich
2015-06-23 9:40 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-06-23 10:01 ` Jan Beulich
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 10/13] lib{xc/xl}: allow the creation of HVM domains with a kernel Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-25 10:39 ` Wei Liu
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 11/13] xen/libxl: allow creating HVM guests without a device model Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-23 9:41 ` Jan Beulich
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 12/13] xen: allow 64bit HVM guests to use XENMEM_memory_map Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-23 9:43 ` Jan Beulich
2015-06-22 16:11 ` [PATCH RFC v1 13/13] xenconsole: try to attach to PV console if HVM fails Roger Pau Monne
2015-06-22 17:55 ` [PATCH RFC v1 00/13] Introduce HMV without dm and new boot ABI Stefano Stabellini
2015-06-22 18:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-06-23 8:14 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-06-23 10:55 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-06-23 12:50 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-23 13:12 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-06-24 2:45 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-06-24 9:47 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-06-24 10:05 ` Jan Beulich
2015-06-24 10:14 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-06-24 11:52 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-06-24 12:04 ` Roger Pau Monné
2015-06-24 13:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-07-03 16:22 ` Tim Deegan
2015-06-24 13:26 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-06-24 16:30 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-06-24 17:54 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-06-23 7:14 ` Roger Pau Monné
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