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Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:05:18 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 10:38:05AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The Xen hypervisor supports starting a dom0 with large memory (up to
> the TB range) by not including the initrd and p2m list in the initial
> kernel mapping. Especially the p2m list can grow larger than the
> available virtual space in the initial mapping.
>
> The started kernel is indicating the support of each feature via
> elf notes.
>
> This series enables grub-xen to do the same as the hypervisor.

Looks good to me. Thanks for doing the work!

I think that maybe it is worth trying to include this
in 2.02 release. If you wish please ask about that
in this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-03/msg00047.html
thread. CC me if you do that.

Daniel



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