similar to: [PATCH 0/9] x86 boot protocol updates

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 adds fields to specify the hardware subarchitecture and some

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 adds fields to specify the hardware subarchitecture and some

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 adds fields to specify the hardware subarchitecture and some

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

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

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 ---

Hi Rusty, I had a look over your 011-paravirt-head.S.patch. I'm struggling to come up with a list of any benefits over having separate entrypoints for each hypervisor. Multiple entry pros: * allows maximum startup flexibility for any given hypervisor * for Xen at least, it's pretty simple * the "what hypervisor am I under" question is answered trivially cons:

Some concern was expressed over the lguest review status, so I shall send the patches out again for people to review, to test, to make observations about the author's personal appearance, etc. I'll plan on sending these patches off to Linus in a week's time, assuming all goes well. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Some concern was expressed over the lguest review status, so I shall send the patches out again for people to review, to test, to make observations about the author's personal appearance, etc. I'll plan on sending these patches off to Linus in a week's time, assuming all goes well. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

I've updated the patches at http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/paravirt/?mf=33ba6c4fce13;path=/ to carve out the basic shape of how I see all this fitting together. These patches implement an initial set of Xen paravirt ops, as well as adapting head.S to set up a Xen-specific entrypoint. The head.S code does absolutely minimal setup, and then calls xen_start_kernel(). This installs the Xen

[ 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

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

>I have just checked it, the startup.elf and realmode.elf are fine. Only few changes are required for mainline kernel and one >commit has to be reverted from lld and a few patches have to be applied. > >The only step when I have used BFD is linking vmlinux. I have manually set LD variable in vmlinux_link() function. The vmlinux >produced by lld doesn't work yet. I will compare

This patchset is for more paravirtualization on ia64/pv_ops. - paravirtualize fsys call (fsys.S) by multi compile - paravirtualize gate page (gate.S) by multi compile - support save/restore For this purpose, the followings needs to be paravirtualized - ar.itc instruction - sched_clock() This is because timer may changed before/after saving/restoring. For convenience the working full

This patchset is for more paravirtualization on ia64/pv_ops. - paravirtualize fsys call (fsys.S) by multi compile - paravirtualize gate page (gate.S) by multi compile - support save/restore For this purpose, the followings needs to be paravirtualized - ar.itc instruction - sched_clock() This is because timer may changed before/after saving/restoring. For convenience the working full