Hi Andrei,
On 8 March 2016 at 14:54, Andrei Borzenkov arvidjaar@gmail.com wrote:
07.03.2016 11:22, Fu Wei пишет:
Hi Andrei,
On 28 February 2016 at 00:44, Fu Wei fu.wei@linaro.org wrote:
Hi Andrei
On 28 February 2016 at 01:26, Andrei Borzenkov arvidjaar@gmail.com wrote:
26.02.2016 14:13, fu.wei@linaro.org пишет:
From: Fu Wei fu.wei@linaro.org
delete: xen_linux, xen_initrd, xen_xsm add: xen_module
This update bases on commit 0edd750e50698854068358ea53528100a9192902 Author: Vladimir Serbinenko phcoder@gmail.com Date: Fri Jan 22 10:18:47 2016 +0100
xen_boot: Remove obsolete module type distinctions.Signed-off-by: Fu Wei fu.wei@linaro.org
docs/grub.texi | 33 ++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi index 82f6fa4..3fbdd99 100644 --- a/docs/grub.texi +++ b/docs/grub.texi @@ -3861,9 +3861,7 @@ you forget a command, you can run the command @command{help}
- videoinfo:: List available video modes
@comment * xen_*:: Xen boot commands
- xen_hypervisor:: Load xen hypervisor binary
-* xen_linux:: Load dom0 kernel for xen hypervisor -* xen_initrd:: Load dom0 initrd for dom0 kernel -* xen_xsm:: Load xen security module for xen hypervisor +* xen_module:: Load xen modules for xen hypervisor @end menu
@@ -5141,30 +5139,19 @@ verbatim as the @dfn{kernel command-line}. Any other binaries must be reloaded after using this command. @end deffn
-@node xen_linux -@subsection xen_linux +@node xen_module +@subsection xen_module
-@deffn Command xen_linux file [arguments] -Load a dom0 kernel image for xen hypervisor at the booting process of xen. +@deffn Command xen_module [--nounzip] file [arguments] +Load a module for xen hypervisor at the booting process of xen. The rest of the line is passed verbatim as the module command line.
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+On i386, the modules will be identified by Multiboot(2) protocol. +On arm64, each module will be identified by the order in which the +modules are added.
I think it is better to skip it entirely. It is not really correct - neither multiboot protocol provides any module identification (Xen probes module types), nor is i386 using multiboot2, nor can all modules be probed, so order still matters. To avoid confusion I'd simply replaced the above three lines with
Modules should be loaded in the following order:
+The 1st module: dom0 kernel image +The 2nd module: dom0 ramdisk (optional)
This covers both supported platforms without going into too deep details; if you and Vladimir are OK, I'll commit with this change.
Thank you very much! Sorry I am not familiar with xen on i386, so maybe I misunderstand this. So please commit with your change, Thanks for your correction :-)
I just fetched the mainline GRUB, i would like to know why this patchset haven't been applied? Anything I need to do(improve it or post a new patchset according to your suggestion) for this patchset?
Sorry for delay. It is not really about your patchset, but we need some decision about loading additional modules/lack of initrd on ARM. Until then I'd rather avoid committing to any high-level configuration support that will require even more backward compatible hacks later.
As it stands now either Xen needs to support autodetection or we need to revert to providing module type explicitly.
So speaking of loading additional modules/lack of initrd on ARM, I thinks that will (only) affect loading XSM. For this, I have discussed of that with Julien, I think : (1) the first module must be kernel (2) the second module must be initrd, if we have initrd (3) Start from the 2nd module, XEN will detect that if the module is a XSM by the XSM binary signature. if we get XSM as the second module, that means we have not initrd.
please correct me if I misunderstand it
:-)