Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-xen-4.5 v3 00/16] xen: Break multiboot (v1) dependency and add multiboot2 support

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 16.10.14 at 14:58, <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 09:13:35AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 08.10.14 at 19:52, <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Just for the record - I do not see this as warranting a release exception.
>> The effort to get this in place was started way too late, and shouldn't
>> be rushed close to or already beyond the feature freeze point.
> 
> It will be nice to have it in 4.5 but I am not going to insist on it
> so strong. Anyway, I am working on next release. I hope that I will
> be able to send it tomorrow.

Which means I can ditch the to-be-reviewed v3 patches 5...16 from
my queue?

And then I'm still not really convinced that all this goes in the right
direction. In particular I'm worried about you doing pretty invasive
to early boot code when it's not really clear that all this need to be
touched (and largely re-written). I'd really favor you initially working
towards supporting MB2 without at the same time trying to abstract
things to fit all of MB1, EFI, MB2, and eventually even ARM. This is
to a good part that it's currently rather hard to see whether what
you abstract and how are really the right items and mechanisms.

Jan


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