[Pkg-xen-devel] Tasks

Bastian Blank
2009-05-11T08:49:30Z

Hi folks

I have some tasks for you on the Xen packages:

* copyright file
  I doubt that this is in any way current.
* pvgrub
  This contains several parts which needs to be statically linked
  together:
  - minios, libxenctrl, libxenguest, libxenstore, all built out of the
    xen tree,
  - patched grub,
  - patched newlib and
  - a libz.
- ioemu/dom0 userspace
  The upstream build uses a clone of the qemu repository with several
  patches on top. This should be buildable out of the qemu source.
- ioemu/stubdomain
  This also needs several parts:
  - minios and the libs,
  - patched qemu,
  - patched newlib and
  - patched libpci.

Some notes:
- Xen upstream hacked newlib to allow (some) libs built against the
  glibc to work with it. This is used for the unpatched libz. Sure, this
  is an easy way, but I'm not sure if we want that.
- The minios binaries used for ioemu/qemu and grub are different.
- ioemu wants to use a new filesystem backend to access the keymap
  files. My first and only look considers this as highly exploitable, so
  the binary should have the files builtin.

Bastian

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