Re: [Xen-devel] debian stretch dom0 + xen 4.9 fails to boot

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
[snip]
> > >
> > > What do you think it best to do for Xen 4.9? Hardcoding a 4k alignment is
> > > clearly easy and would work around this BIOS issue but, as you say, it
> does
> > > grow the image. Reverting Juergen's patch also works round the issue,
> but
> > > that is more by luck. Re-working the code is preferable, but I guess it's
> too
> > > late to introduce such code-churn in 4.9.
> >
> > Reverting Jürgen's code is out of question with all the information
> > you've gathered by now. I think re-working the EDD code slightly
> > is the best option. Would you mind giving the attached patch a
> > try? This still slightly grows the trampoline due to a few more
> > instructions being needed, but should still be far better than
> > embedding a whole 4k buffer (and then later finding a BIOS/disk
> > combination which wants even more). Note that I've left a tiny
> > bit of debugging code in there.
> >
> 
> Sure, I'll give that a go now.
> 

That worked fine:

(XEN) MBR[80] @ 85e0 (86000)

so you can add my Tested-by to that.

Thanks,

  Paul

>   Paul
> 
> > Jan
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