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Re: [Xen-devel] elf loader problems on xen/ia64

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] elf loader problems on xen/ia64
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 09:42:01 +0100
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On 20 May 2006, at 21:37, Alex Williamson wrote:

Therefore this change introduces a significant difference in the
resulting pa value, and causes and MCA when the guest kernel is loaded.
Changesets 10006 and 10009 mask this problem by declaring the image
invalid because xen/ia64 does not have a guestinfo section in the kernel
binary.

The new check for existence of VIRT_BASE can be got rid of: Aravindh has now supplied us a patch for the actual underlying problem. I'll also add a proper fallback value for elf_paddr_offset, as that obviously got missed (we forgot about ia64, sorry!). I'll check something in shortly....

 -- Keir


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