Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 07/12] xen/x86: parse Dom0 kernel for PVHv2

[Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:16:19AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 29.07.16 at 18:29, <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Introduce a helper to parse the Dom0 kernel.
> 
> It would help if you clarified why this needs to be different from
> the PV ELF parsing - to me, ELF is ELF, so no duplication should
> be necessary from a very high level perspective.

AFAICT, the current elf loader code in the PV Dom0 builder uses virtual 
addresses, and the HVM Dom0 builder only uses physical addresses. I agree 
that it could probably be made to work for both, but it's going to make the 
code more complex, and I really prefer the HVM Dom0 builder to be as clean 
and simple as possible.

Roger.

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