Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] grub-xen: support booting huge pv-domains

[Daniel Kiper]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:52:52AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 03/03/16 10:38, Juergen Gross wrote:
> > The Xen hypervisor supports starting a dom0 with large memory (up to
> > the TB range) by not including the initrd and p2m list in the initial
> > kernel mapping. Especially the p2m list can grow larger than the
> > available virtual space in the initial mapping.
> >
> > The started kernel is indicating the support of each feature via
> > elf notes.
> >
> > This series enables grub-xen to do the same as the hypervisor.
> >
> > Tested with:
> > - 32 bit domU (kernel not supporting unmapped initrd)
> > - 32 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd)
> > - 1 GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd, not p2m)
> > - 1 GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd and p2m)
> > - 900GB 64 bit domU (kernel supporting unmapped initrd and p2m)
>
> There has been no reaction for these patches for nearly 4 weeks now.
> Neither has there been any response regarding my request to include
> it in 2.02.

It looks that it will be taken into 2.02. Please check this email:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2016-03/msg00281.html

Daniel