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Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support
From: |
Jan Beulich |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:05:36 +0000 |
>>> On 09.02.15 at 18:59, <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 06:54:04PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> I am sending, long awaited, first version of multiboot2 protocol
>> support for legacy BIOS and EFI platforms.
>>
>> The final goal is xen.efi binary file which could be loaded by EFI
>> loader, multiboot (v1) protocol (only on legacy BIOS platforms) and
>> multiboot2 protocol. This way we will have:
>> - smaller Xen code base,
>> - one code base for xen.gz and xen.efi,
>> - one build method for xen.gz and xen.efi;
>> xen.efi will be extracted from xen file
>> using objcopy; PE header will be contained
>> in ELF file and will precede Xen code,
>> - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend
>> on a given GCC and binutils version.
>
> I have not received so many comments on this patch series.
> Is there no interest in having this feature in Xen? Is there
> anything wrong? Should I fix something?
I didn't get to look at patches 4 and onwards yet, there's too much
other stuff I need to take care of right now; I'll get to this eventually.
Jan