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

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:32:01AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 30.01.15 at 18:54, <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> 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)
> > +        .long   BOOT_CS32
> > +
> > +efi_st:
> > +        .quad   0
> > +
> > +efi_ih:
> > +        .quad   0
> >
> >  .Lbad_cpu_msg: .asciz "ERR: Not a 64-bit CPU!"
> >  .Lbad_ldr_msg: .asciz "ERR: Not a Multiboot bootloader!"
> > @@ -124,6 +152,133 @@ print_err:
> >  .Lhalt: hlt
> >          jmp     .Lhalt
> >
> > +        .code64
> > +
> > +__efi64_start:
> > +        cld
> > +
> > +        /* Bootloaders may set multiboot[12].mem_lower to a nonzero value 
> > */
> > +        xor     %edx,%edx
> > +
> > +        /* Check for Multiboot2 bootloader */
> > +        cmp     $MULTIBOOT2_BOOTLOADER_MAGIC,%eax
> > +        je      efi_multiboot2_proto
> > +
> > +        jmp     not_multiboot
> > +
> > +efi_multiboot2_proto:
>
> jne not_multiboot (and efi_multiboot2_proto dropped altogether)

[...]

Jan, thanks for your comments. Now I am working on relocatable early Xen code.
I hope that I will finish that this week and start tests on this crazy
UEFI platforms. Then I get back to this patch series and replay for your
and other guys comments.

Daniel

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