Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v8 05/32] libxc: introduce a domain loader for HVM guest firmware

[Roger Pau Monnà <royger@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El 08/10/15 a les 11.22, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 18:55 +0200, Roger Pau Monne 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.
>>
>> Since the order in which loaders are tested cannot be arranged, prevent the
>> current elfloader from trying to boot a kernel that doesn't contain Xen
>> ELFNOTES.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I only seem to have received this single patch from v8.
> 
> Is the intention that this should simply replace the equivalent patch in v7
> or did the others somehow go astray?

Yes, this patch it's supposed to replace the v7 version, I haven't sent
the full series. Maybe I should have numbered it 7.1 or something less
ambiguous.

I've done this in order to make it easier to commit 2-11 while I work on
the comments in the rest of the series.

Roger.


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