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Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static h
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
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Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static hypervisor guests |
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Wed, 3 Mar 2021 19:38:05 +0100 |
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On 3/3/21 7:37 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 3/3/21 6:36 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Hypervisors, especially type-1 ones, need the firmware/bootcode to put
>> their initial guest somewhere in memory and pass the information to it
>> via platform data. The guest-loader is modelled after the generic
>> loader for exactly this sort of purpose:
>>
>> $QEMU $ARGS -kernel ~/xen.git/xen/xen \
>> -append "dom0_mem=1G,max:1G loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all" \
>> -device
>> guest-loader,addr=0x42000000,kernel=Image,bootargs="root=/dev/sda2 ro
>> console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen" \
>> -device guest-loader,addr=0x47000000,initrd=rootfs.cpio
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> Message-Id: <20201105175153.30489-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> Message-Id: <20210211171945.18313-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> ---
>> hw/core/guest-loader.h | 34 ++++++++++
>> hw/core/guest-loader.c | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> MAINTAINERS | 5 ++
>> hw/core/meson.build | 2 +
>> 4 files changed, 186 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 hw/core/guest-loader.h
>> create mode 100644 hw/core/guest-loader.c
>
> Missing documentation,
And I now see the following patches...
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>
- [PATCH v3 0/7] Xen guest-loader support, pre-PR, Alex Bennée, 2021/03/03
- [PATCH v3 2/7] hw/riscv: migrate fdt field to generic MachineState, Alex Bennée, 2021/03/03
- [PATCH v3 4/7] hw/core: implement a guest-loader to support static hypervisor guests, Alex Bennée, 2021/03/03
- [PATCH v3 1/7] hw/board: promote fdt from ARM VirtMachineState to MachineState, Alex Bennée, 2021/03/03
- [PATCH v3 3/7] device_tree: add qemu_fdt_setprop_string_array helper, Alex Bennée, 2021/03/03
- [PATCH v3 5/7] docs: move generic-loader documentation into the main manual, Alex Bennée, 2021/03/03
- [PATCH v3 6/7] docs: add some documentation for the guest-loader, Alex Bennée, 2021/03/03
- [PATCH v3 7/7] tests/avocado: add boot_xen tests, Alex Bennée, 2021/03/03