Re: [Xen-devel] [Linaro-uefi] [PATCH 0/5]arm64: Add multiboot support (via fdt) for Xen boot

[Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrie,

Great thanks for your reply!

Please let me know your suggestion for my patch, then I can improve it ASAP!

:-)

Thanks!

On 4 May 2015 at 02:55, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ð Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:32:15 +0800
Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx> ÐÐÑÐÑ:

> Hi everybody,
> any suggestion for my patchset?
> Please let me know if there are some place need to be fixed or improved, if
> these patches look good to you, can they be merged?
>
> Any feedback or suggestion is welcome! :-)
> Great thanks !
>

Sorry for delay. grub-devel is not overcrowded right now; I started to
review them but got distracted. I'll try to find time.

> On 26 January 2015 at 22:32, Stefano Stabellini <
> stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Ping?
> >
> > I think it would be great to have multiboot support in grub.
> > As a matter of fact without it grub cannot load xen on arm.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Fu Wei wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > > any suggestion for my patchset?
> > > if these patches look fine, can they be merged?
> > >
> > > Any feedback is welcome! :-)
> > > Great thanks !
> > >
> > > On 9 January 2015 at 00:38, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > >Â Â Â ÂOn Fri, 2014-12-19 at 01:55 +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
> > >Â Â Â Â> Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Â Â Â Â> Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >Â Â Â ÂI've tested the code at
> > >Â Â Â Âgit://
> > git.linaro.org/people/fu.wei/grub.git#multiboot_xen_support_upstream_v4.0
> > >Â Â Â Âwhich I believe is the same as this posting on an AMD Seattle
> > system
> > >Â Â Â Âwith a 40_custom containing:
> > >
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âmenuentry 'Baremetal' {
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âinsmod gzio
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âinsmod part_msdos
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âinsmod ext2
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âset root='hd0,msdos2'
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âsearch --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> > d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âlinux /boot/vmlinuz console=ttyAMA0,115200n8
> > earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â}
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âmenuentry 'Xen' {
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âinsmod gzio
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âinsmod part_msdos
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âinsmod ext2
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âset root='hd0,msdos2'
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âsearch --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> > d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âmultiboot /boot/xen no-bootscrub console=dtuart
> > conswitch=x dtuart=/smb/serial@e1010000 noreboot
> > >Â Â Â Âsync_console dom0_mem=256M dom0_max_vcpus=1
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âmodule /boot/vmlinuz-xen console=hvc0
> > earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
> > >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â}
> > >
> > >Â Â Â Â(my system is too confused for 10_linux or 20_linux_xen right now,
> > but I
> > >Â Â Â Âbelieve this is representative of what they would emit)
> > >
> > >Â Â Â ÂThe result was that I could boot both Baremetal and Xen via grub.
> > So:
> > >
> > >Â Â Â ÂTested-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >Â Â Â ÂI've not looked at the code (although I did review several older
> > >Â Â Â Âiterations), would it be useful to the grub maintainers for me to
> > do so?
> > >
> > >Â Â Â ÂIan.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Fu Wei
> > > Software Engineer
> > > Red Hat Software (Beijing) Co.,Ltd.Shanghai Branch
> > > Ph: +86 21 61221326(direct)
> > > Ph: +86 186 2020 4684 (mobile)
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> > > Shanghai,China 200021
> > >
> > >
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>

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Best regards,

Fu Wei
Software Engineer
Red Hat Software (Beijing) Co.,Ltd.Shanghai Branch
Ph: +86 21 61221326(direct)
Ph: +86 186 2020 4684 (mobile)
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