Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 00/16] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 20.08.16 at 00:43, <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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(-syms)
>     file using objcopy or special custom tool,
>   - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend
>     on a given GCC and binutils version.

Just in case you aren't aware: The partial revert done by
0b8a172444 ("x86: partially revert use of 2M mappings for
hypervisor image") now puts us a step further away from that
goal, compared to when you had started your work.

Jan


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