[Xen-devel] Writing C program on Stubdom

["阮安邦" <augustime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, list!

          Currently I am trying to write C programs on Stubdom. In my understanding, the c-stubdom is trying to show us that we can just write standard C programs,  linking it to mini-os,(with the APP_OBJS points to the appropriate obj files), then we can run the program as a separate Xen Domain, am I right? 


          I successfully compiled the c-stubdom ( by "make c-stubdom" in XEN_ROOT/stubdom ), and i got the mini-os.gz. Does it mean that i can use it as a kernel to create a new domain, and what it would do is simply out put "hello wolrd" then hangs up? But i get the VMWare crash when i tried to do this. ( Yes, i deployed XEN 3.3 in VMware).


         On the other hand, to find out how stubdom links applications (such ioemu, grub) with MiniOS, I examined the Makefile in XEN_ROOT/stubdom, I noticed that it is achieved by passing "APP_OBJ=  target objects" to the make command of miniOS. In the Makefile of MiniOS, I found the following scripts:

$(OBJ_DIR)/$(TARGET)_app.o: $(APP_OBJS) app.lds
    $(LD) -r -d $(LDFLAGS) -\( $^ -\) $(APP_LDLIBS) --undefined main -o $@
          
         Is the purpose of this scrpits to adjust the APP_OBJS according to app.lds, so it can be linked to MiniOS?

then:

$(OBJ_DIR)/$(TARGET): links $(OBJS) $(OBJ_DIR)/$(TARGET)_app.o arch_lib

    $(LD) -r $(LDFLAGS) $(HEAD_OBJ) $(OBJ_DIR)/$(TARGET)_app.o $(OBJS) $(LDARCHLIB) $(LDLIBS) -o $@.o
    $(OBJCOPY) -w -G $(GLOBAL_PREFIX)* -G _start $@.o $@.o

         Above scripts replaces the "__attribute__((weak)) int app_main(start_info_t *si)" within XEN_ROOT/Extra/Mini-os/Kernel.c with the adjusted APP_OBJS?

         Thanks!
         
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Regards!
Ryan
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