From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
seabios@seabios.org,
"Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
kevin@koconnor.net, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
keir@xen.org, evil.dani@gmail.com,
"Jinjian (Ken)" <jinjian@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: Xen PV block device support in Seabios
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:39:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316103932.GJ31759@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E8D3EE.4060007@huawei.com>
Hello
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:33:02AM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed there are some efforts to add Xen PV block device support in
> Seabios in a GSoC project and there is a wiki page [1] for it. I found
> some patches [2] to add Xenstore R/W support for Seabios. But I didn't
> find the patches to add PV block device driver in Seabios.
>
> If you know please tell me where I can find these patches. And I noticed
> that the patches [2] and this GSoC project work didn't get applied to
> Seabios eventually, is there any reason? Does it mean that there are
> some difficulties to support Xen PV block device in Seabios?
>
On the wiki page there seems to be some clues on why it is not implemented --
there are issues with real mode. But then everything was way before my
formal involvement with Xen so I don't really know all the details.
Wei.
> Thanks in advance!
>
> [1] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/SeaBIOS
> [2] http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2011-August/002214.html
>
> --
> Shannon
>
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-16 3:33 Xen PV block device support in Seabios Shannon Zhao
2016-03-16 10:39 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-03-16 11:20 ` [SeaBIOS] " Ian Campbell
2016-03-16 12:13 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-03-16 12:22 ` Ian Campbell
[not found] ` <1458130952.30744.14.camel@hellion.org.uk>
2016-03-16 12:31 ` Shannon Zhao
2016-03-16 12:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-03-16 13:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-16 13:33 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-16 13:41 ` Ian Campbell
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