Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes

2019-11-07 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:56:48AM -0800, h...@zytor.com wrote: > On November 6, 2019 9:03:33 AM PST, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:13:51PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Due to very limited space in the setup_header this patch series introduces > >> new > >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes

2019-11-06 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 09:56:48AM -0800, h...@zytor.com wrote: > For one thing, we already have people asking for more than 4 GiB > worth of initramfs, and especially with initramfs that huge it would > make a *lot* of sense to allow loading it in chunks without having to > concatenate them. Yeah

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes

2019-11-06 Thread hpa
On November 6, 2019 9:03:33 AM PST, Borislav Petkov wrote: >On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:13:51PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Due to very limited space in the setup_header this patch series >introduces new >> kernel_info struct which will be used to convey information from the >kernel to

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes

2019-11-06 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:13:51PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > > Due to very limited space in the setup_header this patch series introduces new > kernel_info struct which will be used to convey information from the kernel to > the bootloader. This way the boot protocol can be extended regar

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes

2019-11-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 2019-11-04 07:13, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > > Due to very limited space in the setup_header this patch series introduces new > kernel_info struct which will be used to convey information from the kernel to > the bootloader. This way the boot protocol can be extended regardless of the > setup_

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/3] x86/boot: Introduce the kernel_info et consortes

2019-11-04 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi, Due to very limited space in the setup_header this patch series introduces new kernel_info struct which will be used to convey information from the kernel to the bootloader. This way the boot protocol can be extended regardless of the setup_header limitations. Additionally, the patch series in