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[Xen-devel] Re: [Grub2] Xen branches

To: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [Grub2] Xen branches
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:28 +0100
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Thu 17 Nov 2011 02:49:18 +0100, a 
écrit :
> On 17.11.2011 01:59, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Nice!
> Thanks.
> > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, le Thu 17 Nov 2011 01:54:47 +0100, a 
> > écrit :
> >> -network
> >> -disks
> > It can be useful to just re-use the drivers from Mini-OS, but you may
> > want to reimplement them.
> >
> They don't seem to be difficult to implement judging from the spec.

Well, the evil lies in the details :)

> On the other hand making MiniOS building system work nicely with ours
> sounds like hell.

Probably, indeed. Grub1 was not too hard because its building system was
quite simple.

> >> -loaders
> > I strongly recommend to re-use libxc's code, and use my kexec code to
> > actually switch from within the PV domain.
> >
> I'm not that far yet. But I've seen kexec call and I suppose it can be
> used pretty straighforwardely.

Ok.

Samuel

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