From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2A5C433ED for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4382861244 for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:38 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 4382861244 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=suse.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.128056.240489 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1liX3D-0001pf-Ek; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:27 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 128056.240489; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:27 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1liX3D-0001pY-B8; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:27 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 128056; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:26 +0000 Received: from all-amaz-eas1.inumbo.com ([34.197.232.57] helo=us1-amaz-eas2.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1liX3C-0001pO-EN for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:26 +0000 Received: from mx2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.15]) by us1-amaz-eas2.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 37de0106-a572-435a-a931-98f813e36962; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C556AF3E; Mon, 17 May 2021 06:48:24 +0000 (UTC) X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: 37de0106-a572-435a-a931-98f813e36962 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.com; s=susede1; t=1621234104; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=O6qUVKWUKUzptKyI9QMY4G49qkAM1nkIhX4ZXC+4+Hs=; b=JbqL611RsNq4/5E6QtlsiYkidds/foslsKgqnWQ5dAYqrtLQxTCYSauKzvizAHAg1xw6RT TjhRBDeDGC8/RQTUlU1sBzpoW4gQ6bJSBiUMVD5M4PcmIqGnkBT5VMHkXOiT13adGKry6w H/SWgUB5SX8Iu1jQYXb13AEK3LnLtFA= Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] xen/x86: manually build xen.mb.efi binary To: Bob Eshleman Cc: Daniel Kiper , Andrew Cooper , George Dunlap , Ian Jackson , Julien Grall , Stefano Stabellini , Wei Liu , Xen-devel References: <28d5536a2f7691e8f79d55f1470fa89ce4fae93d.1611273359.git.bobbyeshleman@gmail.com> <3c621726-31c4-6a79-a020-88c59644111b@suse.com> <74ea104d-3826-d80d-3af5-f444d065c73f@gmail.com> From: Jan Beulich Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 08:48:32 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <74ea104d-3826-d80d-3af5-f444d065c73f@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07.05.2021 22:26, Bob Eshleman wrote: > What is your intuition WRT the idea that instead of trying add a PE/COFF hdr > in front of Xen's mb2 bin, we instead go the route of introducing valid mb2 > entry points into xen.efi? At the first glance I think this is going to be less intrusive, and hence to be preferred. But of course I haven't experimented in any way ... Jan