Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [HVM] [RFC] Moving the e820 table creation into hvmloader

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
on 11/07/2006 01:51:50 PM:

> On 7/11/06 18:22, "Stefan Berger" <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
> > This patch moves the creation of the e820 tables from libxc into
the
> > hvmloader. I have implemented some functions around the e820
tables for
> > adding and reserving memory areas. I am using these to build
the tables
> > and reserve memory for BIOS and ACPI data. ACPI memory area is
only
> > reserved if ACPI is enabled for the domain.
> 
> We can just make the ACPI range statically a page bigger. It's no
big loss
> (consider that we squander >100kB of memory between 0xC0000 and
0xF0000
> right now), and at some point in the near future we'll get rid of
the acpi
> option and always produce ACPI tables. There are just a few interrupt
issues
> to sort out first.

So I suppose you are not going to take the patch.

> 
> The printk patch could be useful, however, since hvmloader is going
to get
> more complicated in other ways and we'll want to get tracing out of
it.

Which printk patch? Are you going to disable debugging
there altogther?

 Stefan

> 
>  -- Keir
> 
> 
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