Re: HVM firmware passthrough - helper library

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 20:26 +0000, Ross Philipson wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Campbell
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 5:45 AM
> > To: Ross Philipson
> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com; Art Napor (artnapor@yahoo.com)
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] HVM firmware passthrough - helper library
> > 
> > On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 22:04 +0000, Ross Philipson wrote:
> > > Attached is a tarball with a helper library for reading host ACPI and
> > > SMBIOS firmware and creating firmware files that can be used with the
> > > HVM firmware passthrough patches I submitted. I used it in my testing
> > > of the patches and planned to use it later when we moved to a new Xen
> > > version. This library was requested by a few people - I hope you find
> > > it useful.
> > 
> > Would it make sense / are you planning to integrate this into the Xen
> > tree as well? I'm not sure if it fits into an existing library e.g.
> > libxenguest if it would be a separate library.
> > 
> > Ian.
> 
> Following up on this. Is there any interest in integrating this into
> xen? I don't think it belongs in xenguest because it would be used up
> at the libxl level where the fw blobs are passed in via the xl config
> file. It seems like it should be in some separate utilities library
> but I can't really see where.

Maybe the best place would be in libxl itself, or perhaps better in
libxlu?

Toolstacks are supposed to be moving towards using libxl(u) anyway and
even in the interim linking against the library for just these functions
is no great hardship.

Ian.