Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 05/17] SUPPORT.md: Toolstack core

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 02:58:38PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 11/27/2017 02:39 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 02:12:40PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> >> On 11/27/2017 11:43 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 07:20:12PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> >>>> For now only include xl-specific features, or interaction with the
> >>>> system.  Feature support matrix will be added when features are
> >>>> mentioned.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> >>>> CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> CC: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  SUPPORT.md | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>  1 file changed, 38 insertions(+)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/SUPPORT.md b/SUPPORT.md
> >>>> index 5945ab4926..df429cb3c4 100644
> >>>> --- a/SUPPORT.md
> >>>> +++ b/SUPPORT.md
> >>>> @@ -96,6 +96,44 @@ Requires hardware virtualisation support (Intel VMX / 
> >>>> AMD SVM)
> >>>>  
> >>>>  ARM only has one guest type at the moment
> >>>>  
> >>>> +## Toolstack
> >>>> +
> >>>> +### xl
> >>>> +
> >>>> +    Status: Supported
> >>>> +
> >>>> +### Direct-boot kernel image format
> >>>> +
> >>>> +    Supported, x86: bzImage
> >>>
> >>> ELF is missing here.
> >>>
> >>>> +    Supported, ARM32: zImage
> >>>> +    Supported, ARM64: Image
> >>>> +
> >>>> +Format which the toolstack accept for direct-boot kernels
> >>>> +
> >>>> +### systemd support for xl
> >>>
> >>> BSD-style init is also supported.
> >>
> >> Is that different than SysV init?
> > 
> > It seems so but I'm no expert. The FreeBSD handbook states [0]:
> > 
> > "Many Linux(c) distributions use the SysV init system, whereas FreeBSD
> > uses the traditional BSD-style init(8). Under the BSD-style init(8),
> > there are no run-levels and /etc/inittab does not exist. Instead,
> > startup is controlled by rc(8) scripts."
> > 
> > So if systemd and SysV are listed, BSD-style init should also be
> > listed.
> 
> OK, I've modified these to look like this:
> 
> ---
> ### Dom0 init support for xl
> 
>     Status, SysV: Supported
>     Status, systemd: Supported
>     Status, BSD-style: Supported
> ---
> 
> Does that sound good?

Yes, that LGTM.

Roger.

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