[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Grub2 on Xen PV
Hello, Ferenc Wagner, le Fri 15 May 2009 16:57:01 +0200, a écrit : > Let me start a new thread for this. I contacted the Grub people, and > they seem more interested in creating a native Xen port of Grub than > piggybacking the Mini-OS environment We actually had discussed a bit about that at XenSource. If they have the will to maintain it then it's all the best I guess. > usin kexec as I tried. They can reuse my kexec code. > But they need some documentation on the Xen "firmware" to assess the > task at least. What could be given to them apart from hvc_xen.c and > xen-blkfront.c in the Linux sources? blkif-drivers-explained.txt? > After a second thought, the mini-os console.c and blkfront.c are > probably a better choice. I'd rather provide them the MiniOS code which is more simple, yes. But instead of giving them only a few files, show them the whole code, as it's not really just a "firmware". > > For a start, Grub has a Coreboot port, which is ELF, but the Xen 3.2 > > domain builder refuses to load it saying: > > > > xc_dom_parse_elf_kernel: ELF image has no shstrtab > > I guess it tries to look up the Xen notes section, but there are no > section headers in the Grub binary, only program headers. Yes, there's all the magic stuff that needs to be included, see arch/x86/x86_32.S Samuel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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