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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:58:37 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
v12n <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/7] proposed updates to boot protocol and paravirt booting
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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