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From: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
	mchang@suse.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, phcoder@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:04:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160329100436.GU3489@olila.local.net-space.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56FA5074.90305@suse.com>

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:52:52AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 03/03/16 10:38, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > The Xen hypervisor supports starting a dom0 with large memory (up to
> > the TB range) by not including the initrd and p2m list in the initial
> > kernel mapping. Especially the p2m list can grow larger than the
> > available virtual space in the initial mapping.
> >
> > The started kernel is indicating the support of each feature via
> > elf notes.
> >
> > This series enables grub-xen to do the same as the hypervisor.
> >
> > Tested with:
> > - 32 bit domU (kernel not supporting unmapped initrd)
> > - 32 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd)
> > - 1 GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd, not p2m)
> > - 1 GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd and p2m)
> > - 900GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd and p2m)
>
> There has been no reaction for these patches for nearly 4 weeks now.
> Neither has there been any response regarding my request to include
> it in 2.02.

It looks that it will be taken into 2.02. Please check this email:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-03/msg00281.html

Daniel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-29 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-03  9:38 [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 01/11] xen: make xen loader callable multiple times Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 02/11] xen: avoid memleaks on error Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 03/11] xen: reduce number of global variables in xen loader Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 04/11] xen: add elfnote.h to avoid using numbers instead of constants Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 05/11] xen: synchronize xen header Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 06/11] xen: factor out p2m list allocation into separate function Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 07/11] xen: factor out allocation of special pages " Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 08/11] xen: factor out allocation of page tables " Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 09/11] xen: add capability to load initrd outside of initial mapping Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 10/11] xen: modify page table construction Juergen Gross
2016-03-03  9:38 ` [PATCH v7 11/11] xen: add capability to load p2m list outside of kernel mapping Juergen Gross
2016-03-03 14:05 ` [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains Daniel Kiper
2016-03-29  9:52 ` Juergen Gross
     [not found] ` <56FA5074.90305@suse.com>
2016-03-29 10:04   ` Daniel Kiper [this message]
2016-05-12  5:35 ` Juergen Gross
2016-07-04 10:33   ` Juergen Gross
     [not found]   ` <577A3B6D.7060509@suse.com>
2016-07-04 10:53     ` Daniel Kiper
     [not found]     ` <20160704105339.GU24249@olila.local.net-space.pl>
2016-10-11 14:00       ` Juergen Gross
2016-10-17  6:52         ` Daniel Kiper
     [not found]         ` <20161017065258.GA23035@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl>
2016-10-27 14:38           ` Daniel Kiper

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