Re: [Xen-devel] HVMlite ABI specification DRAFT A

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/02/16 20:29, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>>>> If there is more than one module, how is the guest expected to sort out
>>>>> which module is what?
>>> In general I was expecting this would be done by position, or if that's
>>> not enough an additional module (at either position 0 or n) should be
>>> passed to contain that information.
>> Then we should specify it somehow --- e.g. that first module is always the
>> ramdisk.
> Keep in mind that with Linux you can actually append the initrd in the
> vmlinuz file - so you only have "one" file. Hence the first module
> could be optional.

The PV ABI suffers from false assumptions and expectations like this. 
Lets not repeat the same mistakes for HVMLite.

~Andrew

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