Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised)

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Mon Nov 05 2007 - 15:52:41 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Nailing down the interface as hard as possible is a good idea, to
> avoid tying your hands for the future.

Erm, I guess I see what you mean, but it comes to the effect of tying
your hands now in a specific way, rather than having them tied in an
unknown way later on...

But I hadn't noticed the 32-bit boot protocol spec go in. Unfortunately
it isn't useful for booting a pv Xen guest; I just mailed my comments.
I hope we can iterate this to something more generally useful before
getting too wedded to the current protocol.

J
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