Re: Booting the FreeBSD kernel as an zImage file needs a patch upgrade ?.

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 01/01/2024 23:03, Mario Marietto wrote:
> I still see too many variables in the equation. I need to eliminate
> some of them. So :
>
> 1) Do I need to patch the file locore-v6.S with the Julien's patch ?
> ---> 
> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/julieng/freebsd.git;a=commit;h=12a7cb346b88c6d3f52a20b98f361dc62797fbcd
I believe so otherwise XL will not know how to load the binary file (see 
below).
> 2) What kind of u-boot are you talking about ? Where should I get it ?
You don't need U-boot if you have a zImage. Instead, you can ask 'xl' to 
load it from the dom0 filesystem. The option in the xl configuration is
kernel='<path-to-binary>'

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall