Re: [Xen-devel] New Xen boot infrastructure proposal

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 16:09 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 16:27 +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:52:04PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 03:36 -0700, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > > > It means
> > > > that at this stage it is worth to create completely new
> > > > boot structure which is not linked so tightly with any boot
> > > > protocol. It should contain all needed stuff, be architecture
> > > > independent as much as possible and easily extensible.
> > >
> > > Is this proposal intended to form a protocol between the bootloader and
> > 
> > More or less.
> 
> So we are expecting bootloaders to all implement this Xen specific,
....

actually, I'm confused, the other sub-threads here seem to suggest this
protocol is between the "preloader" bits of Xen and the main body of
Xen, which is the other alternative I gave.

Ian.


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