linux-kernel - Re: Two questions about paravirt boot sequence(head

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Message-ID: <4DA852E3.9080702@ece.ntua.gr>
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:14:59 +0300
From:	Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@....ntua.gr>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Two questions about paravirt boot sequence(head_32.S)

On 04/15/2011 05:08 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:40:05PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:33:51 +0300, Stratos Psomadakis <psomas@....ntua.gr> wrote:
>>> 2)I think that xen doesn't use any more the hardware subarch boot
>>> parameter, and uses a 'different' path/boot sequence, hence the
>>> xen_entry in head_32.S is not needed any more. Am I missing something?
>> Yep, Xen never actually used it.
> Does lguest use it? It looked like a neat idea - what happened?
yeap, afaik, lguest uses the subarch field to jump to its own 'entry
point'...

-- 
Stratos Psomadakis
<psomas@....ntua.gr>

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