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Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest

From Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest
Date 2016-02-04 23:30 +0100
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On 02/04/2016 03:57 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Ah, well here lies the issue. As per hpa subarch was not designed for defining
> a hypervisor, but rather at least subarch PC (0) [should be used if the
> hardware is] "enumerable using standard PC mechanisms (PCI, ACPI) and doesn't
> need a special boot flow". Does that follow the definition of HVMlite?

Yes. HVMlite is going to use baremetal boot flow.

> OK great. That still means the code will run, and if we can avoid that
> why not. I am fine with annotating this as future work to help. Let me
> then ask as well, how about the rest of the code during and after
> startup_32() and startup_64() -- are we sure that's all safe ?

I can't be sure, all I can say is that so far I haven't seen any problems.

-boris

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[PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-02-01 16:50 +0100
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> - 2016-02-02 17:40 +0100
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-02-02 18:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-02-03 20:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-02-03 21:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-02-04 00:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-02-04 21:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-02-04 22:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-02-04 23:30 +0100
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> - 2016-02-03 22:00 +0100
      Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-02-04 01:00 +0100
        Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-02-04 01:10 +0100
        Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> - 2016-02-04 02:00 +0100
          Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-02-05 00:20 +0100

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