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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v11 00/13] x86: multiboot2 protocol support



On 12/5/16 4:25 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am sending eleventh version of multiboot2 protocol support for
> legacy BIOS and EFI platforms. This patch series release contains
> fixes for all known issues.
> 
> The final goal is xen.efi binary file which could be loaded by EFI
> loader, multiboot (v1) protocol (only on legacy BIOS platforms) and
> multiboot2 protocol. This way we will have:
>   - smaller Xen code base,
>   - one code base for xen.gz and xen.efi,
>   - one build method for xen.gz and xen.efi;
>     xen.efi will be extracted from xen(-syms)
>     file using objcopy or special custom tool,
>   - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend
>     on a given GCC and binutils version.
> 
> Here is short list of changes since v10:
>   - changed patches: 06 (small change suggested by Jan).
> 
> This is Xen 4.9 material.
> 
> If you are not interested in this patch series at all please
> drop me a line and I will remove you from distribution list.
> 

Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm running this series (plus Andrew's fix in patch 7) in my 4.8 based
version. We're currently only booting this with multiboot1 but are in
the process of adding multiboot2 support to iPXE.

If booting it with multiboot1 is sufficient then I'm not opposed to adding:

Tested-by: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'll report back when I do more testing.
-- 
Doug Goldstein

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