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From: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Scott Davis <scottwd@gmail.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Scott Davis <scott.davis@starlab.io>,
	Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	Nick Rosbrook <rosbrookn@ainfosec.com>,
	Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/xl: Add stubdomain_cmdline option to xl.cfg
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:11:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4d5cb39-420b-a9e3-0b9c-bee7e5d41a78@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56f86674-7a6c-3f3a-40e9-dcb35cddbb88@citrix.com>

Hi,

On 21/07/2021 10:06, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 21/07/2021 09:21, Julien Grall wrote:
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> On 20/07/2021 18:56, Scott Davis wrote:
>>> This adds an option to the xl domain configuration file syntax for
>>> specifying
>>> a kernel command line for device-model stubdomains. It is intended
>>> for use with
>>> Linux-based stubdomains.
>>
>> May I ask why embedding the command line in the kernel would not be a
>> solution? Do you expect it to change from stubdom to stubdom?
> 
> Why should users of stubdoms be forced to embed command line options?
> Especially when its not the normal way of working?

I didn't suggest they should be forced. I was more interested to know 
the setup because I was expecting stubdomain to use a very tailored kernel.

> 
> They shouldn't, and this alone is enough justification for the change.

Everyone has a different perspective. I don't see the problem of asking 
the question... Maybe I should have add "OOI" to make clear with wasn't 
a complain.

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-21  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-20 17:56 [PATCH] tools/xl: Add stubdomain_cmdline option to xl.cfg Scott Davis
2021-07-21  8:21 ` Julien Grall
2021-07-21  9:00   ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-21  9:06   ` Andrew Cooper
2021-07-21  9:11     ` Julien Grall [this message]
2021-07-21  9:57       ` Ian Jackson
2021-07-21 22:30   ` Scott Davis
2021-07-21 12:42 ` Jason Andryuk
2021-07-21 12:50   ` Ian Jackson
2021-07-21 13:26     ` Jason Andryuk
2021-07-21 14:03       ` Ian Jackson

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