Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v10 0/9] Introduce HVM without dm and new boot ABI

[Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

El 15/12/15 a les 16.58, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
> On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 16:52 +0100, Roger Pau Monnà wrote:
>> El 15/12/15 a les 16.11, Ian Campbell ha escrit:
>>> On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 15:08 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 06:21 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've just applied 1-3, 5, and 6. 4 has been applied earlier. I'd
>>>>> appreciate if the last three (tools only) patches could be taken
>>>>> care of by a tools committer.
>>>>
>>>> All done, thanks all.
>>
>> Thanks :).
>>
>>> Roger,
>>>
>>> While cleaning out my queue folder of related things I came across
>>> various
>>> versions of "Boot ABI for HVM guests without a device-model". Did all
>>> of
>>> that end up in some form in this series? I don't see anything under
>>> docs/*
>>> is all, but maybe it all ended up in xen/include/public/*.h?
>>
>> No, it didn't end up anywhere. TBH I'm not sure whether I should commit
>> it as a separate file or as an update to pvh.markdown, but then I should
>> probably do it when the original PVH implementation is gone. Any
>> opinions?
> 
> How close is dm-lite to replacing the existing set of pvh functionality?
> 
> If it's close then lets just replace, if it is still a little way off then
> lets commit a docs/misc/dm-lite.markdown next to pvh.markdown with a view
> to eventually doing:
>       git mv docs/misc/{dm-lite,pvh}.markdown
> 
> Maybe include a little blurb at the top explaining what's going on?

IMHO, it should be committed as a different file until we have Dom0
support for HVMlite and we can effectively replace the PVH
implementation with HVMlite. I'm going to refresh the document and send
the patch.

Roger.


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