From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] Xen PV block device support in Seabios Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:33:26 -0600 Message-ID: <56E96EB602000078000DD270@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> References: <56E8D3EE.4060007@huawei.com> <1458127231.30744.9.camel@hellion.org.uk> <56E94DFC.2030706@huawei.com> <1458130952.30744.14.camel@hellion.org.uk> <20160316131531.GE1460@char.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160316131531.GE1460@char.us.oracle.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Ian Campbell , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, seabios@seabios.org, "Huangpeng (Peter)" , xen-devel , kevin@koconnor.net, Shannon Zhao , keir@xen.org, evil.dani@gmail.com, "Jinjian (Ken)" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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