Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On 21.10.13 at 14:57, Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: (Looking at the Cc list it's quite interesting that you copied a whole lot of people, but not me as the maintainer of the EFI bits in Xen.) Separate multiboot2efi module should be established. It should verify system kernel and

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On 21.10.13 at 20:39, Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: On 21.10.13 at 14:57, Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: Separate multiboot2efi module should be established. It should verify system kernel and all

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On 22.10.13 at 11:26, Ian Campbell ian.campb...@citrix.com wrote: AIUI efilinux is somewhat badly named and does not use the Linux Boot Protocol (i.e. the (b)zImage stuff with real mode entry point) either. It actually loads and executes the kernel binary as a PE/COFF executable (the native

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On 22.10.13 at 15:53, Ian Campbell ian.campb...@citrix.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 09:42 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: Looking at the Fedora GRUB2 source, the 'struct linux_kernel_header' is defined in the linux/Documentation/x86/boot.txt and hpa is pretty strict about making

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On 22.10.13 at 11:45, Ian Campbell ian.campb...@citrix.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: On 22.10.13 at 11:26, Ian Campbell ian.campb...@citrix.com wrote: AIUI efilinux is somewhat badly named and does not use the Linux Boot Protocol (i.e. the (b)zImage stuff

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On 22.10.13 at 16:51, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.w...@oracle.com wrote: And I still haven't found the module that can launch any PE/COFF image from GRUB2. Maybe that is a myth. I can't exclude that this is a custom a patch as the linuxefi support. Jan

Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

Ian Campbell ian.campb...@citrix.com 10/23/13 10:32 AM The second (standard PE/COFF entry point) can be launched using the UEFI chainloader call. AIUI this should work with xen.efi today. There are some limitations however, firstly there is no way to pass additional blobs and so the launched

Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.w...@oracle.com 10/23/13 3:15 PM On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:32:30AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Am I correct that xen.efi today can be loaded from grub today using the chainload command? Whereupon it will parse the xen.cfg and load the dom0 kernel and load things

Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenkophco...@gmail.com 10/23/13 7:02 PM GrUB - which iiuc stays in memory after transferring control - could export its file system support to its descendants). Xen shouldn't need to load any file after multiboot2 entry point. The needed files would already

Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On 28.10.13 at 19:01, Vladimir 'f-coder/phcoder' Serbinenkophco...@gmail.com wrote: Will a multiboot2 tag with whole EFI memory map solve your problem? I added such a tag in documentation and wrote a patch for it (attached). Awaiting for someone to test it to commit Great! I think from

Re: [Xen-devel] Loading a 32 bit kernel from 64 bit grub-xen

On 01.07.14 at 20:27, ps...@ubuntu.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/1/2014 12:18 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: В Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:06:08 -0400 Phillip Susi ps...@ubuntu.com пишет: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been trying to fix

Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

On 04.02.15 at 10:04, andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: On 03/02/2015 17:14, Daniel Kiper wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:28:49AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend on a given GCC and binutils

Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend on a given GCC and binutils version. While I can see the possibility of making the binutils version dependency go away (by manually creating the PE header), I can't see how you'd overcome the

Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

On 05.02.15 at 12:50, phco...@gmail.com wrote: Le 2015-02-04 10:51, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com a écrit : On 04.02.15 at 10:04, andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: On 03/02/2015 17:14, Daniel Kiper wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:28:49AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54

Re: [PATCH 02/18] x86/boot/reloc: create generic alloc and copy functions

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: --- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/reloc.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/reloc.c @@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ asm ( typedef unsigned int u32; #include ../../../include/xen/multiboot.h -static void *reloc_mbi_struct(void *old, unsigned int bytes) +static u32

Re: [PATCH 03/18] x86/boot: use %ecx instead of %eax

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: /* Save the Multiboot info struct (after relocation) for later use. */ mov $sym_phys(cpu0_stack)+1024,%esp -push%ebx -callreloc +mov %ecx,%eax +push%ebx

Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

On 09.02.15 at 18:59, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 06:54:04PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: I am sending, long awaited, first version of multiboot2 protocol support for legacy BIOS and EFI platforms. The final goal is xen.efi binary file which could be loaded by EFI

Re: [PATCH 18/18] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms

On 10.02.15 at 22:27, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: After some testing we have found at least one machine on which this thing does not work. It is Dell PowerEdge R820 with latest firmware. Machine crashes/stops because early 32-bit code is not relocatable and must live under 0x10

Re: [PATCH 18/18] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: @@ -94,6 +111,17 @@ ENTRY(start) gdt_boot_descr: .word 6*8-1 .long sym_phys(trampoline_gdt) +.long 0 /* Needed for 64-bit lgdt */ + +cs32_switch_addr: +.long sym_phys(cs32_switch) +

Re: [PATCH 04/18] xen/x86: add multiboot2 protocol support

On 27.03.15 at 11:56, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:06:26PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: --- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile +++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ obj-bin-y += head.o -RELOC_DEPS

Re: [PATCH 16/18] efi: create efi_exit_boot()

On 27.03.15 at 13:00, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: Additionally, efi_start() is architecture independent and efi_multiboot2() is x86 only and it should live in x86 files. Is that really the case? Looking at the grub2 sources I see support for other than x86... Jan

Re: [PATCH 04/18] xen/x86: add multiboot2 protocol support

On 27.03.15 at 13:22, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:20:10AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.15 at 11:56, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:06:26PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote

Re: [PATCH 08/18] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code

On 27.03.15 at 12:14, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: IIRC, MS ABI is supported starting from GCC v4.0. Where did you find that? From all I know __attribute__((__ms_abi__)) is being supported only by 4.5 and newer. The mere support of the MS ABI via command line option doesn't help us, as we

Re: [PATCH 17/18] x86/efi: create new early memory allocator

On 27.03.15 at 13:57, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 05:23:49PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: +{ +void *ptr; + +/* + * Init __malloc_free on runtime. Static initialization + * will not work

Re: [PATCH 05/18] efi: split efi_enabled to efi_platform and efi_loader

On 27.03.15 at 14:32, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:17:35PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: We need more fine grained knowledge about EFI environment and check for EFI platform and EFI loader separately to properly

Re: [PATCH 18/18] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms

On 27.03.15 at 14:06, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:32:01AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: +/* Skip Multiboot2 information fixed part */ +lea MB2_fixed_sizeof(%ebx),%ecx Let's please not add

Re: [PATCH 05/18] efi: split efi_enabled to efi_platform and efi_loader

On 27.03.15 at 14:53, andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: On 27/03/15 13:43, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.15 at 14:32, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:17:35PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: We need more fine grained

Re: [PATCH 18/18] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms

On 27.03.15 at 15:26, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 01:36:32PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.15 at 14:06, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:32:01AM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 05/18] efi: split efi_enabled to efi_platform and efi_loader

On 27.03.15 at 15:09, lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:04:22PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.15 at 14:53, andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: On 27/03/15 13:43, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.15 at 14:32, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015

Re: [PATCH 18/18] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms

On 27.03.15 at 15:57, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:34:19PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.15 at 15:26, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 01:36:32PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.03.15 at 14:06, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote

Re: [PATCH 17/18] x86/efi: create new early memory allocator

On 02.03.15 at 21:25, roy.fr...@linaro.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: @@ -192,12 +218,7 @@ static void __init efi_arch_process_memory_map(EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE *SystemTable, static void *__init

Re: [PATCH 08/18] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: --- a/xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile +++ b/xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ CFLAGS += -fshort-wchar -obj-y += stub.o +obj-y += boot.o +obj-y += compat.o +obj-y += runtime.o So how is this going to work with a compiler not new

Re: [PATCH 16/18] efi: create efi_exit_boot()

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: ..which gets memory map and calls ExitBootServices(). We need this to support multiboot2 protocol on EFI platforms. Patches from 9 up to here all make sense on the basis that patch 18 does and assuming that you really need all this code

Re: [PATCH 17/18] x86/efi: create new early memory allocator

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: --- a/xen/arch/x86/efi/efi-boot.h +++ b/xen/arch/x86/efi/efi-boot.h @@ -103,9 +103,35 @@ static void __init relocate_trampoline(unsigned long phys) *(u16 *)(*trampoline_ptr + (long)trampoline_ptr) = phys 4; } +#define

Re: [PATCH 05/18] efi: split efi_enabled to efi_platform and efi_loader

On 03.03.15 at 00:40, roy.fr...@linaro.org wrote: Reviewing the #ifndef CONFIG_ARM in EFI code, and the efi_enabled usage elsewhere, the remaining EFI tasks on ARM look like: * Support for SetVirtualAddressMap * Runtime service support - looks like just time function used by x86 in

Re: [PATCH 04/18] xen/x86: add multiboot2 protocol support

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: --- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile +++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ obj-bin-y += head.o -RELOC_DEPS = $(BASEDIR)/include/asm-x86/config.h $(BASEDIR)/include/xen/multiboot.h +RELOC_DEPS =

Re: [PATCH 05/18] efi: split efi_enabled to efi_platform and efi_loader

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: We need more fine grained knowledge about EFI environment and check for EFI platform and EFI loader separately to properly support multiboot2 protocol. ... because of ... (i.e. I can't see from the description what the separation is good

Re: [PATCH 07/18] efi: run EFI specific code on EFI platform only

On 30.01.15 at 18:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: --- a/xen/arch/x86/shutdown.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/shutdown.c @@ -504,7 +504,8 @@ void machine_restart(unsigned int delay_millisecs) tboot_shutdown(TB_SHUTDOWN_REBOOT); } -efi_reset_system(reboot_mode != 0); +if (

Re: [PATCH v2 08/23] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support

to Makefile (suggested by Jan Beulich), With the compiler.h inclusion done I don't think this is as necessary anymore as it was previously. - isolated/stray __packed attribute usage for multiboot2_memory_map_t (suggested by Jan Beulich). This one I don't, however, see why you didn't

Re: [PATCH v2 05/23] x86/boot/reloc: create generic alloc and copy functions

...@citrix.com --- v2 - suggestions/fixes: - generalize new functions names (suggested by Jan Beulich), - reduce number of casts (suggested by Jan Beulich). This contradicts retaining Andrew's R-b tag. Please remember to drop tags for everything you make non-trivial changes

Re: [PATCH v2 07/23] x86/boot/reloc: Rename some variables and rearrange code a bit

. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com Acked-by: Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH v2 09/23] efi: create efi_enabled()

On 22.08.15 at 14:33, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:18:17AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: --- a/xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c @@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ #include xen/lib.h #include asm/page.h

Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code

On 22.08.15 at 15:59, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:39:39AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: Build xen.gz with EFI code. We need this to support multiboot2 protocol on EFI platforms. If we wish to load not ELF

Re: [PATCH v2 04/23] x86/boot: call reloc() using cdecl calling convention

On 20.07.15 at 16:28, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: An empty description leaves us guess at the why. --- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/reloc.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/reloc.c @@ -10,15 +10,27 @@ *Keir Fraser k...@xen.org */ -/* entered with %eax = BOOT_TRAMPOLINE */ +/* + * This entry

Re: [PATCH v2 08/23] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support

On 18.08.15 at 14:00, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 02:12:58AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: @@ -119,10 +213,11 @@ __start: /* Save the Multiboot info struct (after relocation) for later use

Re: [PATCH v2 14/23] efi: split out efi_find_gop_mode()

... patches Acked-by: Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com Jan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH v2 09/23] efi: create efi_enabled()

On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: --- a/xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/efi/stub.c @@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ #include xen/lib.h #include asm/page.h -#ifndef efi_enabled -const bool_t efi_enabled = 0; -#endif +struct efi __read_mostly efi = { + .flags = 0,

Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code

On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: Build xen.gz with EFI code. We need this to support multiboot2 protocol on EFI platforms. If we wish to load not ELF file using multiboot (v1) or multiboot2 then DYM a non-ELF file? it must contain linear (or flat) representation of

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

On 14.08.15 at 15:59, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 06:49:18AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 14.08.15 at 13:52, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:48:06PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 04:29:17PM +0200, Daniel

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

On 14.08.15 at 16:37, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 08:32:05AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 14.08.15 at 15:59, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 06:49:18AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 14.08.15 at 13:52, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

On 14.08.15 at 13:52, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:48:06PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 04:29:17PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: diff --git a/xen/include/asm-x86/page.h b/xen/include/asm-x86/page.h index 87b3341..27481ac 100644 ---

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 08/23] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support

On 13.08.15 at 21:22, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 03:17:48PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 04:29:03PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote: @@ -34,6 +57,42 @@ multiboot1_header_start: /*** MULTIBOOT1 HEADER / .long

Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

On 20.07.15 at 16:28, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: This series, in general, is not targeted to Xen 4.6. However, there are some fixes at the beginning of it which are worth considering, I think. I looked at the first few, and didn't spot any fixes. If you meant just cleanup or other cosmetic

Re: [Xen-devel] Uniform commands for booting xen

>>> On 12.11.15 at 18:09, <ian.campb...@citrix.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-11-12 at 08:44 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: >> > > > On 12.11.15 at 14:41, <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello, all. I'd like to have set of commands that would boot xen o

Re: [Xen-devel] Uniform commands for booting xen

>>> On 12.11.15 at 14:41, wrote: > Hello, all. I'd like to have set of commands that would boot xen on all > platforms. I thought of following set: > > xen_hypervisor FILE XEN_OPTIONS > xen_kernel FILE KERNEL_OPTIONS > xen_initrd INITRD INITRD INITRD > all initrds are

Re: [Xen-devel] Uniform commands for booting xen

>>> On 12.11.15 at 17:58, <arvidj...@gmail.com> wrote: > 12.11.2015 18:44, Jan Beulich пишет: >>>>> On 12.11.15 at 14:41, <phco...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, all. I'd like to have set of commands that would boot xen on all >>> platforms

Re: [PATCH v2 21/23] x86/boot: implement early command line parser in C

On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: Current early command line parser implementation in assembler is very difficult to change to relocatable stuff using segment registers. This requires a lot of changes in very weird and fragile code. So, reimplement this functionality in C.

Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code

On 25.08.15 at 18:31, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 06:09:09AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 24.08.15 at 22:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 05:35:21AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 22.08.15 at 15:59, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote

Re: [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

On 27.08.15 at 17:10, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 07:12:38AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: /* Copy bootstrap trampoline to low memory, below 1MB. */ -mov $sym_phys(trampoline_start),%esi

Re: [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

On 27.08.15 at 20:04, andrew.coop...@citrix.com wrote: On 27/08/15 16:29, Jan Beulich wrote: On 27.08.15 at 17:10, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 07:12:38AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: /* Copy bootstrap

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

On 27.08.15 at 19:56, 426...@gmail.com wrote: If you advocate direct booting ( no boot loader) on production machines I wont argue much, as long as there is good recovery tools to deal with failed boots (grub does this very well, I am not aware of anything comparable that is pure efi).

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

On 28.08.15 at 15:42, konrad.w...@oracle.com wrote: And I am not comfortable to say 'GRUB2+Xen cannot run on this hardware because your firmware vendor is not following the EFI spec in spirit.' Well, not the least since I don't really agree with this (albeit I can see where you're coming from)

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

On 27.08.15 at 17:29, jbeul...@suse.com wrote: You're right, there's no such requirement on memory use in the spec. But you're missing the point. Supporting grub2 on UEFI is already a hack (ignoring all intentions EFI had from its first days). And now you've found an environment where that

Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code

On 26.08.15 at 14:33, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: Do you suggest that I should put this functionality (PE with multiboot headers) on top of this patch series? Well, it is possible but this series is big and I would like to avoid to make it bigger. I prefer to get current patches into Xen

Re: [PATCH v2 19/23] x86/efi: create new early memory allocator

On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: There is a problem with place_string() which is used as early memory allocator. It gets memory chunks starting from start symbol and going down. Sadly this does not work when Xen is loaded using multiboot2 protocol because start lives on 1

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

>>> On 31.08.15 at 21:49, <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:16:05AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 28.08.15 at 15:42, <konrad.w...@oracle.com> wrote: >> > Now that said - do you have suggestions on how to make this

Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code

On 24.08.15 at 22:54, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 05:35:21AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 22.08.15 at 15:59, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:39:39AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: On 20.07.15 at 16:29, daniel.ki...@oracle.com wrote

Re: [PATCH v2 21/23] x86/boot: implement early command line parser in C

>>> On 22.09.15 at 19:03, <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 06:43:39AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 20.07.15 at 16:29, <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: >> > +#define __packed __attribute__((__packed__)) >> &

Re: [PATCH v2 20/23] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms

>>> On 22.09.15 at 17:21, <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 06:01:26AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 20.07.15 at 16:29, <daniel.ki...@oracle.com> wrote: >> > @@ -130,6 +146,119 @@ print_err: >> > .Lhalt: hl

Re: multiboot2 and module2 boot issues via GRUB2

On 01.04.2021 03:06, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > And the obvious next question: is my EVE usecase esoteric enough that > I should just go ahead and do a custom GRUB patch or is there a more > general interest in this? Not sure if it ought to be a grub patch - the issue could as well be dealt with

Re: multiboot2 and module2 boot issues via GRUB2

On 01.04.2021 21:43, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 01/04/2021 09:44, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:31:07AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> On 01.04.2021 03:06, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: >>>> And the obvious next question: is my EVE usecase esoteric eno

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > In addition to the existing address and ELF load types, specify a new > optional PE binary load type. This new type is a useful addition since > PE binaries can be signed and verified (i.e. used with Secure Boot). And the consideration to have ELF

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

On 14.03.2024 15:24, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 1:37 PM Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 14.03.2024 10:30, Ross Lagerwall wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:24 AM Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: >>>>>

Re: [PATCH 1/7] multiboot2: Add load type header and support for the PE binary type

On 14.03.2024 10:30, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:24 AM Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> On 13.03.2024 16:07, Ross Lagerwall wrote: >>> In addition to the existing address and ELF load types, specify a new >>> optional PE binary load type. This ne