[Xen-devel] Re: Grub2 on Xen PV

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx>]

Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Let me start a new thread for this.  I contacted the Grub people, and
> they seem more interested in creating a native Xen port of Grub than
> piggybacking the Mini-OS environment usin kexec as I tried.  But they
> need some documentation on the Xen "firmware" to assess the task at
> least.  What could be given to them apart from hvc_xen.c and
> xen-blkfront.c in the Linux sources?  blkif-drivers-explained.txt?

After a second thought, the mini-os console.c and blkfront.c are
probably a better choice.

> For a start, Grub has a Coreboot port, which is ELF, but the Xen 3.2
> domain builder refuses to load it saying:
>
> xc_dom_parse_elf_kernel: ELF image has no shstrtab

I guess it tries to look up the Xen notes section, but there are no
section headers in the Grub binary, only program headers.
-- 
Feri.

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