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Re: [Xen-devel] A question on vmx loader in xen - how and when rombiosis

To: Hu Jia Yi <jyhu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] A question on vmx loader in xen - how and when rombiosis loaded into memory
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:58:34 +0000
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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
228 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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