[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: [SeaBIOS] Xen HVM Support
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:59:10AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > The following enables support for running SeaBIOS as the virtual BIOS > in a Xen HVM (fully-virtualised) guest. > > In this series SeaBIOS is loaded by hvmloader (the Xen early firmware) > rather than directly as was previously tried. This approach turned out > to be far less intrusive on the SeaBIOS side and leaves knowledge of > the virtual hardware setup encapsulated within hvmloader which is > updated in lock step with the hypervisor and associated tools. > > BIOS tables are built by hvmloader and passed to SeaBIOS via a simple > in memory data structure. The tables are identified by scanning for > their signatures which is hopefully extensible enough but the core > structure can also be extended as necessary. It looks okay to me. Thanks, -Kevin _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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