From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
AndrewCooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
"Julien Grall (julien.grall@arm.com)" <julien.grall@arm.com>,
"xen-devel(xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org)"
<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: debian stretch dom0 + xen 4.9 fails to boot
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 09:52:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40009cf2-ef28-4c70-410e-029b6ac8ffb8@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <593AB92202000078001615A1@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On 06/09/2017 09:05 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 09.06.17 at 14:19, <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com> wrote:
>> ..., but all this has
>> got me wondering why Xen bothers to read the MBR, or the EDD info for that
>> matter? EDD or MBR signatures are returned by the XENPF_firmware_info
>> hypercall, and Linux does seem to have code called early on in
>> xen_start_kernel() that does make such hypercalls, but it also appears to be
>> able to boot happily if I put edd=off on my Xen command line, so is this code
>> really necessary?
> Well, that's a question to the Linux folks. I would guess there's
> management code around wanting that info, but I'm not sure. Us
> doing this is simply because of Linux wanting it and having no
> other way to get at least some of this information (it could surely
> read the MBRs, but it wouldn't be able to associate them with
> BIOS drive numbers used for the other EDD information obtained).
Not sure what it is for. Perhaps there are some tools that poke into sysfs?
commit 96f28bc66adb1414cfc9405ff80cfffdc44edd84
Author: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Date: Wed Apr 3 17:31:50 2013 +0100
x86/xen: populate boot_params with EDD data
During early setup of a dom0 kernel, populate boot_params with the
Enhanced Disk Drive (EDD) and MBR signature data. This makes
information on the BIOS boot device available in /sys/firmware/edd/.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-06 14:32 debian stretch dom0 + xen 4.9 fails to boot Paul Durrant
2017-06-06 15:11 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-06 15:51 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-06 16:28 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-06 17:00 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-07 8:07 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 8:09 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 8:19 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 14:05 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2017-06-07 8:07 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 8:27 ` Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <5937D4FF02000078001602F6@suse.com>
2017-06-07 9:03 ` Juergen Gross
2017-06-07 9:05 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 9:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-07 10:36 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 11:06 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 11:57 ` Juergen Gross
2017-06-07 12:02 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 12:13 ` Juergen Gross
2017-06-07 12:19 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 12:26 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 12:34 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 11:50 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 11:55 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 12:00 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 12:46 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 12:55 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 15:06 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 15:33 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-07 15:40 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-07 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 12:42 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-08 12:46 ` Juergen Gross
2017-06-08 13:18 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-08 13:24 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-09 12:19 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-09 13:05 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-09 13:52 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2017-06-09 15:14 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-09 15:41 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-09 15:47 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-09 15:58 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-12 8:14 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-12 10:40 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-12 10:44 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-12 10:53 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-12 11:12 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-12 12:05 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-12 12:25 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-12 13:54 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-12 14:28 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-12 14:43 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-12 15:03 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-12 15:07 ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-12 15:21 ` Paul Durrant
2017-06-06 17:40 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-07 8:05 ` Paul Durrant
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