linux-kernel - Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt

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Message-ID: <466087CF.70708@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:55:43 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Extending boot protocol & bzImage for paravirt_ops

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> ....
> +Field name:	hardware_subarch
> +Type:		write
> +Offset/size:	0x23c/4
> +Protocol:	2.07+
> +
> +  In a paravirtualized environment the hardware low level architectural 
> +  pieces such as interrupt handling, page table handling, and
> +  accessing process control registers needs to be done differently.
> +
> +  This field allows the bootloader to inform the kernel we are in one
> +  one of those environments.
> +
> +  0x00000000	The default x86/PC environment
> +  0x00000001	lguest
> +  0x00000002	Xen
> +
> +Field name:	hardware_subarch_data
> +Type:		write
> +Offset/size:	0x23c/8
>   

offset = 240

> +Protocol:	2.07+
> +
> +  A pointer to data that is specific to hardware subarch
>   

Do we care particularly? If 8 bytes is enough for the subarch, do we
care whether its a pointer or literal? After all, this is just a private
channel between the bootloader and some subarch-specific piece of code
in the kernel.

J
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