Re: [Xen-devel] [PROPOSAL] ARM/FDT: passing multiple binaries to a kernel

[Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/04/2013 10:55 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 10:43 +0200, Andre Przywara wrote:
>
> > I am about to write up a more elaborate technical rationale describing
> > the problems with multiboot on ARM:
> >
> > https://wiki.linaro.org/AndrePrzywara/Multiboot
> Doesn't seem to exist? A search for "mulitboot" doesn't seem to throw up
> the one you meant either.
Try again now. As mentioned "I am about to write ..." ;-)

Thanks,
Andre.

> > > So, is having a more generic solution really needed?
> > Not necessarily needed, but useful, I think. As described above I don't
> > see any technical obstacles of doing it in a more generic way, so we
> > could as well go ahead with this. On x86 from time to time the need for
> > additional binaries pops up (early microcode loading, for instance), so
> > why not be be prepared.
> I agree. There have also been occasions where people doing
> disaggregation have wanted to start multiple initial domains, requiring
> additional modules at load time. I don't think being generic and
> extensible is costing too much here.
>
> Ian.

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