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

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 09:45:13AM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 1/11/17 2:46 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2016 at 11:25:05PM +0100, 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).
> >
> > Guys, I am going to release next version in 1-2 weeks. If you
> > have more comments for current one please post them ASAP.
> > I would like to have this patch series come into 4.9.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
>
> Daniel,
>
> I have a more immediate deadline from my $EMPLOYER. I plan on posting
> the series that I am using for my requirements. In my situation I need
> to boot EFI and the machine I'm booting requires multiple initrds that
> the dom0 kernel glues together. Hence my need for this series. It
> includes all the changes we've discussed in this thread. Hopefully it
> will help you out to post v12.

If it helps you somehow please do. It will be nice if you CC me, mark
somehow patches changed in comparison to v11 and describe what is fixed.
Then I will incorporate all needed changes into v12.

Daniel

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