Re: [Xen-devel] Guest OS without paging

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> im porting minix, so the custom guest will be that.

Ah, cool!  It'd be nice to have Minix running.

> Im having to create a 
> new builder for it, because it's a.out format and only compiles with
> amsterdam compiler kit. porting to gcc would be quite a big job. the kernel
> image itself is also a strange format, not just a.out, but multiple a.out
> processes concatenated together. For these reasons i decided a new builder
> was needed. could I get the builder to map all the available memory into
> the bootstrap pagetables?

IMO, if you really need a Minix-specific builder, you might as well have it 
set up the page tables for you too.  This will probably make life simpler for 
development, in any case.

Cheers,
Mark

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