Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:58:37 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | [PATCH RFC 0/7] proposed updates to boot protocol and paravirt booting |
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This series: 1. Updates the boot protocol to version 2.07 2. Clean up the existing build process, to get rid of tools/build and make the linker do more heavy lifting 3. Make the bzImage payload an ELF file. The bootloader can extract this as a naked ELF file by skipping over boot_params.setup_sects worth of 16-bit setup code. 4. Update the boot_params to 2.07, and update the kernel's head.S to jump to the appropriate subarch-specific kernel entrypoint. The very earliest code is common (copy boot_params, clear bss); the split happens just before the initial pagetable setup. + random little changes to make it all hang together
This boots native for me, so everything basically works. But I haven't tested it end-to-end yet, because I haven't done the Xen bits yet. Perhaps Rusty can do the lguest version to verify that its all sound in principle (hint hint ;).
So, how does it look?
J --
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