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2013 May 21
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New Xen boot infrastructure proposal
...anges proposal. It is linked with EFI development but not only. Since the beginning Xen image and other needed stuff could be loaded into memory according to multiboot protocol. (e.g. implemented by GRUB). It means that current implementation of Xen takes info about current system config from multiboot_info_t structure (it is copied from original place in assembly files and then passed as an argument to __start_xen()) and some other BIOS sources if needed (e.g. VGA config, EDD data). Later when EFI come into the scene there was no significant change in that. multiboot_info_t structure and others are i...