Bug#759018: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: Introduce specification for x86 pv bootloader chainloading paths/formats.

Ian Campbell ijc at hellion.org.uk
Tue Oct 21 08:17:28 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 21:14 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> In order to support pvgrub (or other bootloader) from dom0 chainloading a
> pvgrub (or other) from within the domU filesystem we need a standard for where
> the stage 1 bootloader should look and what it should expect to find there.
> 
> Add a document along those lines.
> 
> This is currently x86-specific since it is expected that other new architecures
> (including ARM) will either not need to implement this due to the existence of
> more generic specifications for that arch (e.g. the ARM VM spec) or will update
> this document in due course.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>
> Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson at eu.citrix.com>
> Cc: Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org>
> Cc: 759018 at bugs.debian.org

On IRC Ian J said:
(16:52:37) ijc: Diziet: Did you (intend to) ack <1409343270-2375-1-git-send-email-ijc at hellion.org.uk>?
(16:55:14) Diziet: ijc: I'm sure I intended to ack that, sorry.
(16:55:42) ijc: Will you or can I take the above as one?
(16:57:48) Diziet: ijc: Please do take it as an ack.

So I have fabricated an Ack and applied.



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