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Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
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Jan Beulich |
Subject: |
Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:53:57 +0100 |
>>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko<address@hidden> 10/23/13 7:02 PM >>>
>> GrUB - which iiuc stays in memory
>> after transferring control - could export its file system support to its
>> descendants).
>
>Xen shouldn't need to load any file after multiboot2 entry point. The
>needed files would already be in memory with pointers to them passed.
I should have said "to its chainloaded descendants".
>If you insist on being able to load directly from EFI, then IMO the best
>way is to have a PE executable with one of sections containing Xen and
>code which would load remaining files to memory and call common entry point.
I think you've been told before - this is what has been working already for
quite
some time.
Jan
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, (continued)
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Andrey Borzenkov, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/10/23
- Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen,
Jan Beulich <=
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Woodhouse, David, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Woodhouse, David, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Matthew Garrett, 2013/10/22