Where can I download
documents elaborating the differences between xen-3.2.0 and 3.1.0.
The
white paper in xen.org is too short to be enlighting.
By the way,
how can a full emulation of real mode be done? Is there a big speed gap between
the full emulation and VM86?
Best
regards,
Hu Jia
Yi
Ext:
20430
Tel:
65-67510430
-----Original Message-----
From: Keir Fraser
[mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008
4:59 PM
To: Hu Jia Yi; Cui, Dexuan;
xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] A
question on vmx loader in xen - how and when rombiosis loaded into memory
We
don’t take that patch in Xen 3.2 and earlier. Instead we use vmxassist (see the
use_vmxassist() if statement immediately above the jump to f000:fff0). In
current xen-unstable we have got rid of vmxassist and Xen itself does full
emulation of real mode; and the tools/firmware/README is gone!
-- Keir
On 28/2/08 07:33, "Hu Jia Yi" <jyhu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you.
I notice the system then jumps to F000:FFF0 to execute. But because VMX is
turned on, switching to real-mode would incur problems?
I don’t find any clue to turn on the vm86 mode as Readme in the tools/firmware
directory puts.
Best
regards,
Hu Jia Yi
Ext: 20430
Tel: 65-67510430
-----Original Message-----
From: Cui, Dexuan [mailto:dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008
11:43 AM
To: Hu Jia Yi;
xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] A
question on vmx loader in xen - how and when rombiosis loaded into memory
> how and when rombios, vgabios and vmxassist have been
loaded to the memory from the disk before calling “memcpy”.
They are statically compiled into hvmloader in the way of
C array and are loaded with hvmloader.
Please step into the directory hvmloader/ and search for "roms.h" in
Makefile.
-- Dexuan
From:
xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Hu Jia Yi
Sent: 2008年2月28日 11:26
To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-devel] A question on
vmx loader in xen - how and when rombiosis loaded into memory
A “main” function is defined in
Xen-3.1.0-source/tools/firmware/hvmloader/hvmloader.c.
In this main function, rombios, vgabios and vmxassist are copied to specified
address,
with following commands
memcpy((void *)ROMBIOS_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS,
rombios, rombios_sz);
…
memcpy((void *)ETHERBOOT_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, etherboot, sizeof(etherboot));
….
But after searching the whole
directory “firmware”, I don’t know how and when rombios, vgabios and
vmxassist have been loaded to the memory from the disk before calling “memcpy”.
Could anybody help me on this?
Best
regards,
Hu Jia Yi
Ext: 20430
Tel: 65-67510430
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