From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ross Philipson Subject: Re: HVM firmware passthrough - helper library Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:26:29 -0500 Message-ID: <831D55AF5A11D64C9B4B43F59EEBF720A320A939F0@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 , "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. 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. Thanks Ross