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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen bootloader

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen bootloader
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:49:21 +0100
Cc: Richard Miller <9xen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, rminnich@xxxxxxxx
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> > let's not forget Plan 9, eh? Would this approach support plan 9?
>
> Sure, as long as the xen binary load file format is still supported.
> We can load out of a FAT partition.

AFAIK it ought to be a case of just making sure the kexec tools can load the 
Xenified plan9 kernel - we could always patch them if necessary, I guess.

Cheers,
Mark

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