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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] elilo compressed dom0 kernel support

To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] elilo compressed dom0 kernel support
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:00:10 -0700
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On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 14:40 -0800, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort
Collins) wrote:
> Unless anyone objects...
> 
> Alex, please send me whatever "documentation" files belong
> in the directory with xlilo and I will remove the existing
> files and add yours.
> 
> We may be on a very short time fuse to get this in before 3.0.
> 

  Ok, how about the below?  The elilo cvsview doesn't yet show the
changes, but if you check out the module, they're there.  Hopefully we
can soon point to some pre-build binary images for 3.5pre2.  I don't
know that we need to include the patch file any longer.  Thanks,

        Alex

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
---

diff -r ec2ab25dacee xen/arch/ia64/tools/xelilo/elilo.README
--- a/xen/arch/ia64/tools/xelilo/elilo.README   Thu Nov 17 16:32:22 2005
+++ b/xen/arch/ia64/tools/xelilo/elilo.README   Thu Dec  1 15:50:29 2005
@@ -1,35 +1,22 @@
-Elilo update for Xen/ia64 HowTo   9/20/2005
-
-1. Build the new elilo
-       a. Get the elilo RPM
-       
http://fedora.mirrors.pair.com/linux/core/development/SRPMS/elilo-3.4-11.src.rpm
-
-       b. Get the elilo-3.4.11.xen.patch
-
-       c. Create elilo development tree
-               > mkdir elilo
-               > cd elilo
-               > rpm2cpio ../elilo-3.4-11.src.rpm | cpio -div
-               > tar xvfz elilo-3.4.tar.gz
-               > cd elilo-3.4
-               > // read elilo.spc for deatiled patch steps
-               > patch -p1 < ../elilo-3.3a-makefile.patch
-               > patch -p1 < ../elilo-3.4-debug.patch
-               > patch -p2 < ../elilo-initrd-size-fix.patch
-               > patch -p1 < ../elilo-argv-fix.patch
-               > patch -p1 < ../elilo-kill-warnings.patch
-               > patch -p1 < ../../elilo-3.4.11.xen.patch
-               > make          <=== get the elilo.efi
-
-2. How to run with the new elilo.efi?
-       a. Example to run
-               modify elilo.conf with following entry
-
-               image=XenoLinux.uncompressed
-                       label=xen
-                       vmm=xen.gz
-                       initrd=initrd-2.6.9-5.7.EL.img
-                       read-only
-                       append="com2=57600,8n1 console=com2 sched=bvt -- nomca 
console=ttyS1,576 00 console=tty0 root=/dev/sda3"
-
-
+Elilo update for Xen/ia64 HowTo   2005/12/01
+
+   Xen support is committed to ELILO CVS as of Dec 1, 2005.  This support
+   should be in version 3.5pre2 when it is made available.  To build from
+   source:
+
+1. Build the new elilo
+       a. Get current elilo CVS from http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo
+       b. make (Note that gnu-efi is a build dependency)
+
+2. How to run with the new elilo.efi?
+       a. Example to run
+               modify elilo.conf with following entry
+
+               image=XenoLinux.gz
+                       label=xen
+                       vmm=xen.gz
+                       initrd=initrd-2.6.9-5.7.EL.img
+                       read-only
+                       append="com2=57600,8n1 console=com2 sched=bvt -- nomca 
console=ttyS1,57600 console=tty0 root=/dev/sda3"
+
+



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