similar to: [PATCH 00/10] paravirt/subarchitecture boot protocol

[ This patch depends on the cross-architecture ELF cleanup patch. ] This series updates the boot protocol to 2.07 and uses it to implement paravirtual booting. This allows the bootloader to tell the kernel what kind of hardware/pseudo-hardware environment it's coming up under, and the kernel can use the appropriate boot sequence code. Specifically: - Update the boot protocol to 2.07, which

[ This patch depends on the cross-architecture ELF cleanup patch. ] This series updates the boot protocol to 2.07 and uses it to implement paravirtual booting. This allows the bootloader to tell the kernel what kind of hardware/pseudo-hardware environment it's coming up under, and the kernel can use the appropriate boot sequence code. Specifically: - Update the boot protocol to 2.07, which

This series: 1. Updates the boot protocol to version 2.07 2. Clean up the existing build process, to get rid of tools/build and make the linker do more heavy lifting 3. Make the bzImage payload an ELF file. The bootloader can extract this as a naked ELF file by skipping over boot_params.setup_sects worth of 16-bit setup code. 4. Update the boot_params to 2.07, and update the

This series: 1. Updates the boot protocol to version 2.07 2. Clean up the existing build process, to get rid of tools/build and make the linker do more heavy lifting 3. Make the bzImage payload an ELF file. The bootloader can extract this as a naked ELF file by skipping over boot_params.setup_sects worth of 16-bit setup code. 4. Update the boot_params to 2.07, and update the

This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the opportunity to extract the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org ---

This allows other boot loaders such as the Xen domain builder the opportunity to extract the ELF file. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org ---

OK, here's another go-around. This patch leaves the bzImage itself unmodified, but it changes the payload into an ELF file. That is, the 32-bit decompression/relocation+compressed kernel is now a properly formed ELF file. One thing that fell out of this is that code32_start end up being a pointer to the ELF header rather than an entrypoint. Rather than reproducing Vivek's (?) hack of

OK, here's another go-around. This patch leaves the bzImage itself unmodified, but it changes the payload into an ELF file. That is, the 32-bit decompression/relocation+compressed kernel is now a properly formed ELF file. One thing that fell out of this is that code32_start end up being a pointer to the ELF header rather than an entrypoint. Rather than reproducing Vivek's (?) hack of

Hi, I've come across some problems with the assembly version of the ELFNOTE macro currently in -mm. (in x86-put-note-sections-into-a-pt_note-segment-in-vmlinux.patch) The first is that older gas does not support :varargs in .macro definitions (in my testing 2.17 does while 2.15 does not, I don't know when it became supported). The Changes file says binutils >= 2.12 so I think we need

[ REPOST: Apologies to anyone who has seen this before. It didn't make it onto any of the lists it should have. -J ] Hi Andrew, This series of patches lays the basic ground work for the paravirtualized kernel patches coming later on. I think this lot is ready for the rough-and-tumble world of the -mm tree. For the most part, these patches do nothing or very little. The patches should

[ REPOST: Apologies to anyone who has seen this before. It didn't make it onto any of the lists it should have. -J ] Hi Andrew, This series of patches lays the basic ground work for the paravirtualized kernel patches coming later on. I think this lot is ready for the rough-and-tumble world of the -mm tree. For the most part, these patches do nothing or very little. The patches should

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:22:47 -0500 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote: > Jan had some comments about that patch: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1745041/ > > Please fix it up so I can put it in the Linux tree. Please see below. Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> Thanks, Mukesh diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-head.S

Xen i386 xen-head.S fix sections mixup xen-head.S does not come back to the data section, leaving the text section as current section. It causes problems with a slightly enhanced DEBUG_RODATA that supports CONFIG_HOTPLUG and bringing a CPU up after the text has been marked read-only: reference to early_gdt_descr causes a page fault. It applies on 2.6.22-rc2-mm2. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers

Xen i386 xen-head.S fix sections mixup xen-head.S does not come back to the data section, leaving the text section as current section. It causes problems with a slightly enhanced DEBUG_RODATA that supports CONFIG_HOTPLUG and bringing a CPU up after the text has been marked read-only: reference to early_gdt_descr causes a page fault. It applies on 2.6.22-rc2-mm2. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers

Xen i386 xen-head.S fix sections mixup xen-head.S does not come back to the data section, leaving the text section as current section. It causes problems with a slightly enhanced DEBUG_RODATA that supports CONFIG_HOTPLUG and bringing a CPU up after the text has been marked read-only: reference to early_gdt_descr causes a page fault. It applies on 2.6.22-rc2-mm2. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers

I started with Vivek's ELF bzImage patch from Oct last year, mashed it to apply to hpa's new setup/boot code. This patch does a couple of things, which would probably be better split into multiple patches: 1. Glue an ELF header onto the front of bzImage. This is a real ELF header at the front of the file. Breaks akpm's laptop, apparently, but it works for me. 2.

I started with Vivek's ELF bzImage patch from Oct last year, mashed it to apply to hpa's new setup/boot code. This patch does a couple of things, which would probably be better split into multiple patches: 1. Glue an ELF header onto the front of bzImage. This is a real ELF header at the front of the file. Breaks akpm's laptop, apparently, but it works for me. 2.

Hi Andrew, This series of patches lays the basic ground work for the paravirtualized kernel patches coming later on. I think this lot is ready for the rough-and-tumble world of the -mm tree. The main change from the last posting is that all the page-table related patches have been moved out, and will be posted separately. Also, the off-by-one in reserving the top of address space has been

Hi Andrew, This series of patches lays the basic ground work for the paravirtualized kernel patches coming later on. I think this lot is ready for the rough-and-tumble world of the -mm tree. The main change from the last posting is that all the page-table related patches have been moved out, and will be posted separately. Also, the off-by-one in reserving the top of address space has been

The attached re-enables the pygrub build and fixes the build with older e2fsprogs (tested on RHEL4 with e2fsprogs-1.35 and rawhide with e2fsprogs-1.38) Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> Jeremy _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel