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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH2] multiboot module support

To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH2] multiboot module support
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:18:16 +0000
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Your original patch is checked in already, you know?

 -- Keir

On 15/12/2009 20:42, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, what's the preferred way?
> 
> - either completely multiboot compliant, has to patch libxc and modify
>   start_info to add the number of modules (my second patch)
> - multiboot compliant except the module table has to end with a NULL
>   entry to let the domU compute the number of modules, has to patch
>   libxc but leave start_info as is (my third patch).
> - multiboot-like, offsets have to be recomputed by the domU, no need to
>   patch libxc for now, until somebody wants to add xend support (my
>   first patch).
> 
> Samuel



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