On 24/01/18 17:10, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 01/24/2018 10:26 AM, George Dunlap wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> wrote: >>> On 24/01/18 16:07, George Dunlap wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Boris Ostrovsky >>>> <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote: >>>>> On 01/24/2018 07:06 AM, Juergen Gross wrote: >>>>>> On 24/01/18 11:54, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:42:39AM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: >>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:41 AM, Boris Ostrovsky >>>>>>>> <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 01/18/2018 05:33 AM, Wei Liu wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:31:32AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> Wei, >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On 01/12/17 15:14, Juergen Gross wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> Instead of locating the RSDP table below 1MB put it just below 4GB >>>>>>>>>>>> like the rest of the ACPI tables in case of PVH guests. This will >>>>>>>>>>>> avoid punching more holes than necessary into the memory map. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> >>>>>>>>>>>> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> >>>>>>>>>>> Mind applying this one? >>>>>>>>>> Don't worry, it is in my queue. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Will come to this and other patches I accumulated soon. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Wei. >>>>>>>>> This requires kernel changes, doesn't it? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-12/msg00714.html >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> And this series apparently never made it to the tree. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> PVH guests are broken now on staging. >>>>>>>> And the Linux side of PVH is officially supported now, right? >>>>> >>>>> AFAIK PVH is still considered a tech preview --- Linux or Xen. >>>> From SUPPORT.md: >>>> >>>> ### x86/PVH guest >>>> >>>> Status: Supported >>>> >>>> I was under the impression that PVH guest in Linux was complete and >>>> stable as of Linux 4.11. If that's not true it should have been >>>> brought up during the 4.10 development cycle, where we declared PVH >>>> domUs as "supported". > > > OK, I missed that, sorry. > > I though we were going to wait for PCI passthrough to become available > until declaring it supported. > > >>> So what is the problem here? >>> >>> - current Linux can't be booted as PVH guest with xen-unstable due to >>> a bug in Linux, patches for Linux are being worked on > > I would prefer for patches to first show up in Linux. Otherwise we will > be adding Xen code without any means to test it with PVH guests. And > then, when Linux does get proper RSDP support for PVH and tries to boot, > we may discover that all sorts of unrelated things are broken.
I wanted to do it this way. My Linux patches were accepted for 4.16 and only then I sent the Xen patches. Unfortunately the grub2 bug resulted in the Linux patches being put on hold. Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel