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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...