Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 00/04] HVM firmware passthrough

[Ross Philipson <Ross.Philipson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 8:25 AM
> To: Ross Philipson
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 00/04] HVM firmware passthrough
> 
> On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 23:46 +0000, Ross Philipson wrote:
> 
> > You are talking about values in the config that libxl consumes (I am
> > not terribly familiar with libxl)? Yea I could do something like that.
> > I don't think in general anyone would override the entire DSDT (though
> > I could add that support if desired). So I would probably do something
> > like:
> >
> > smbios_pt="smbios_structures.bin"
> > acpi_pt="acpi_tables.bin"
> >
> > In the process should I switch libxl to call xc_hvm_build()
> > rather than xc_hvm_build_target_mem()?
> 
> I think that would be preferable to extending the
> xc_hvm_build_target_mem API any further, iirc xc_hvm_build was intended
> to be the extensible replacement.
> 
> Ian.

Ok I will submit a separate patch (set) for changes to libxl. I will
switch to using the new build function too.

Thanks
Ross


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