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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 6/7] xen/pvh: Add memory map pointer to
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On 2/28/2018 11:41 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> 03/01/18 8:29 AM >>>
>> On 28/02/18 19:28, Maran Wilson wrote:
>>> The start info structure that is defined as part of the x86/HVM direct boot
>>> ABI and used for starting Xen PVH guests would be more versatile if it also
>>> included a way to pass information about the memory map to the guest. This
>>> would allow KVM guests to share the same entry point.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@oracle.com>
>> I'm fine with this, but we need this change being accepted by the Xen
>> community first. So an Ack from Jan or Andrew is required as the same
>> change should be done on Xen side.
> And for an ack to be given I continue to demand that a patch be sent against
> the Xen tree. That said, the change looks fine to me now (as indicated before).

Yes, I plan to send that out against the Xen tree shortly.

Thanks,
-Maran

> Jan
>