From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Roger Pau Monne <royger@FreeBSD.org>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/HVMlite: document the BSP/AP boot ABI
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:21:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A5F736.3070901@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453717009-91577-1-git-send-email-royger@FreeBSD.org>
On 25/01/16 10:16, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
>
> The discussion in [1] lead to an agreement of the missing pieces in PVH
> (or HVM without a device-model) in order to progress with it's
> implementation.
>
> One of the missing pieces is a new boot ABI, that replaces the PV boot
> ABI. The aim of this new boot ABI is to remove the limitations of the
> PV boot ABI, that are no longer present when using auto-translated
> guests. The new boot protocol should allow to use the same entry point
> for both 32bit and 64bit guests, and let the guest choose it's bitness
I would add "and paging mode" here, as it is just as important as bitness.
Otherwise, Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
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2016-01-25 10:16 [PATCH v2] x86/HVMlite: document the BSP/AP boot ABI Roger Pau Monne
2016-01-25 10:21 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
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