Re: [Xen-devel] [edk2-devel] [PATCH v4 05/35] OvmfPkg/OvmfXen: Creating an ELF header

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/29/19 17:39, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> This patch changes the flash device image of OvmfXen to make it look
> like it's an ELF. For this, we replace the empty embedded variable store
> by a binary array, which is a ELF file header.
> 
> The ELF header explain to a loader to load the binary at the address
> 1MB, then jump to the PVH entry point which will be created in a later
> patch. The header also includes a Xen ELF note that is part of the
> PVH ABI.
> 
> That patch include OvmfXenElfHeaderGenerator.c which can be use to
> regenerate the ELF header, but this will be a manual step.
> 
> Ref: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689
> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     v4:
>     - fix top-level comment style
>     - Update Maintainers.txt
>     
>     v3:
>     - added license to generate_elf_header.c
>       which is renamed to OvmfPkg/OvmfXenElfHeaderGenerator.c
>     - added an ELF NOTE into the header
> 
>  OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.fdf                 | 101 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  OvmfPkg/OvmfXenElfHeaderGenerator.c | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Maintainers.txt                     |   1 +
>  3 files changed, 239 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 OvmfPkg/OvmfXenElfHeaderGenerator.c

[...]

> diff --git a/Maintainers.txt b/Maintainers.txt
> index 42ec8d54af..016523b401 100644
> --- a/Maintainers.txt
> +++ b/Maintainers.txt
> @@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ F: OvmfPkg/Library/XenConsoleSerialPortLib/
>  F: OvmfPkg/Library/XenHypercallLib/
>  F: OvmfPkg/Library/XenIoMmioLib/
>  F: OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.*
> +F: OvmfPkg/OvmfXenElfHeaderGenerator.c
>  F: OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/MemDetect.c
>  F: OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Platform.*
>  F: OvmfPkg/PlatformPei/Xen.*
> 

Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>

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