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Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
From: |
Jan Beulich |
Subject: |
Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:10:32 +0100 |
>>> On 22.10.13 at 15:53, Ian Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 09:42 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
>> Looking at the Fedora GRUB2 source, the 'struct linux_kernel_header' is
> defined
>> in the linux/Documentation/x86/boot.txt and hpa is pretty strict
>> about making it backwards compatible. It also seems to support Xen!
>>
>> (Interestingly enough we do have this structure in the code: see
>> setup_header in arch/x86/bzimage.c)
>
> There will be another usage in tools/libxc/...bzimage too
>
> FWIW I think we only use this stuff for the magic number/version and the
> payload_offset/length fields, which we do in order to extract the
> payload (ELF file) for booting dom0 and domU. It's not AFAIK used for
> booting Xen itself or lets say, that's not why I added it ;-)).
Indeed, we only use this to handle bzImage type kernels.
Jan
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, (continued)
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Andrey Borzenkov, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/24
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen,
Jan Beulich <=
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Woodhouse, David, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Woodhouse, David, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Matthew Garrett, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Woodhouse, David, 2013/10/22