> > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 09:44 +0100, James Harper wrote: > > Am I understanding right that the OS would need to be completely put on > > hold in the middle of the hypercall while the BIOS took over and did > > it's shutdown sequence, which presumably involves xenstore activity? > > Correct, or at least that is one suggestion (probably the front runner > at the moment). > > In theory it's no worse than SMM, which Windows presumably already copes > with, but perhaps the latency from having to do the xenstore interaction > is far greater than any real SMM operation. >
How hard would it be to create a better mechanism for going forward and implement the above as a fallback if the DomU doesn't support the new mechanism? James _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list [email protected] http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
