Re: [PATCH] EFI: Enable booting unified hypervisor/kernel/initrd images

[Trammell Hudson <hudson@xxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, September 4, 2020 2:05 PM, Trammell Hudson <hudson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Friday, September 4, 2020 1:58 PM, Julien Grall julien@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > On 28/08/2020 12:51, Trammell Hudson wrote:
> > > This patch adds support for bundling the xen.efi hypervisor, the xen.cfg
> > > configuration file, the Linux kernel and initrd, as well as the XSM, and
> > > CPU microcode into a single "unified" EFI executable.
> >
> > For Arm, I would also consider to add the DTB in "unified" EFI
> > executable. See efi_arch_cfg_file_early() in xen/arch/arm/efi/efi-boot.h.
>
> Excellent point. The DTB is critical as well. I'll add that to
> the patch on Xen's gitlab.

Here is an untested patch for loading DTB from unified image:

https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/merge_requests/4/diffs?commit_id=e55336e11cc6a7ce77f0bf8ce3aa0712c7017e8b

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trammell