Re: [Xen-devel] [Linaro-uefi] [PATCH 0/5]arm64: Add multiboot support (via fdt) for Xen boot

[Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx>]

HiÂeverybody,
any suggestion for my patchset?
Please let me know if there are some place need to be fixed or improved, if these patches look good to you, can they be merged?

Any feedback or suggestion is welcome! :-)
Great thanks !

On 26 January 2015 at 22:32, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ping?

I think it would be great to have multiboot support in grub.
As a matter of fact without it grub cannot load xen on arm.


On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Fu Wei wrote:

> HiÂeverybody,
> any suggestion for my patchset?
> if these patches look fine, can they be merged?
>
> Any feedback is welcome! :-)
> Great thanks !
>
> On 9 January 2015 at 00:38, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Â Â Â ÂOn Fri, 2014-12-19 at 01:55 +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
>Â Â Â Â> Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Â Â Â Â> Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Â Â Â ÂI've tested the code at
>Â Â Â Âgit://git.linaro.org/people/fu.wei/grub.git#multiboot_xen_support_upstream_v4.0
>Â Â Â Âwhich I believe is the same as this posting on an AMD Seattle system
>Â Â Â Âwith a 40_custom containing:
>
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â menuentry 'Baremetal' {
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â insmod gzio
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â insmod part_msdos
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â insmod ext2
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â set root='hd0,msdos2'
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â linux /boot/vmlinuz console=ttyAMA0,115200n8 earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â }
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â menuentry 'Xen' {
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â insmod gzio
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â insmod part_msdos
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â insmod ext2
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â set root='hd0,msdos2'
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â multiboot /boot/xen no-bootscrub console=dtuart conswitch=x dtuart=/smb/serial@e1010000 noreboot
>Â Â Â Âsync_console dom0_mem=256M dom0_max_vcpus=1
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â module /boot/vmlinuz-xen console=hvc0 earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
>Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â Â }
>
>Â Â Â Â(my system is too confused for 10_linux or 20_linux_xen right now, but I
>Â Â Â Âbelieve this is representative of what they would emit)
>
>Â Â Â ÂThe result was that I could boot both Baremetal and Xen via grub. So:
>
>Â Â Â ÂTested-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Â Â Â ÂI've not looked at the code (although I did review several older
>Â Â Â Âiterations), would it be useful to the grub maintainers for me to do so?
>
>Â Â Â ÂIan.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Fu Wei
> Software Engineer
> Red Hat Software (Beijing) Co.,Ltd.Shanghai Branch
> Ph: +86 21 61221326(direct)
> Ph: +86 186 2020 4684 (mobile)
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> One Corporate Avenue,222 Hubin Road,Huangpu District,
> Shanghai,China 200021Â
>
>

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Fu Wei
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