From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ross Philipson Subject: Re: HVM firmware passthrough - helper library Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:57:06 -0500 Message-ID: <831D55AF5A11D64C9B4B43F59EEBF720A31FBE1C9C@FTLPMAILBOX02.citrite.net> References: <831D55AF5A11D64C9B4B43F59EEBF720A31FBE1BC0@FTLPMAILBOX02.citrite.net> <1357728271.7989.220.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1357728271.7989.220.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org > -----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. Right so I mainly put it out there because some people asked for it. I had the same issue while I was working on the fw patches - I could not really figure out where it might belong. That is why I left it separate and did not submit it for inclusion (though I had mentioned it in some earlier threads). I am perfectly happy to have it integrated in Xen (and submit patches for it) if we can figure out how and where to integrate it. Thanks Ross