Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 09/14] x86/boot: implement early command line parser in C

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 23.09.16 at 23:47, <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Current early command line parser implementation in assembler
> is very difficult to change to relocatable stuff using segment
> registers. This requires a lot of changes in very weird and
> fragile code. So, reimplement this functionality in C. This
> way code will be relocatable out of the box (without playing
> with segment registers) and much easier to maintain.
> 
> Additionally, put all common cmdline.c and reloc.c definitions
> into defs.h header. This way we do not duplicate needlessly
> some stuff.
> 
> And finally remove unused xen/include/asm-x86/config.h
> header from reloc.c dependencies.
> 
> Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel