Re: [Xen-devel] Remaining EFI Xen on ARM issues (on Juno at least)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 22.10.14 at 16:24, <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 15:14 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>  But first of all - I suppose this NOR thing has a
>> proper file system (and hence a respective EFI protocol) on it? I ask
>> because iirc we can't currently handle being remote booted because
>> we expect a file system protocol, yet in that case it's a different one
>> that would need to be used. There simply was no-one to ask for
>> that functionality yet...
> 
> A proper filesystem is perhaps a bit of a stretch, you feed the lower
> level firmware an index file mapping filenames to regions of flash and
> it fakes up a filesystem, so it looks like a file system protocol to the
> UEFI app I think.

So maybe something isn't being done as we expect it (which isn't to
say that what we expect is necessarily right).

Jan


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