>>> On 20.08.16 at 00:43, <[email protected]> wrote:
> The final goal is xen.efi binary file which could be loaded by EFI
> loader, multiboot (v1) protocol (only on legacy BIOS platforms) and
> multiboot2 protocol. This way we will have:
> - smaller Xen code base,
> - one code base for xen.gz and xen.efi,
> - one build method for xen.gz and xen.efi;
> xen.efi will be extracted from xen(-syms)
> file using objcopy or special custom tool,
> - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend
> on a given GCC and binutils version.
Just in case you aren't aware: The partial revert done by
0b8a172444 ("x86: partially revert use of 2M mappings for
hypervisor image") now puts us a step further away from that
goal, compared to when you had started your work.
Jan
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