Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 02/04/2016 03:57 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Ah, well here lies the issue. As per hpa subarch was not designed for defining
> a hypervisor, but rather at least subarch PC (0) [should be used if the
> hardware is] "enumerable using standard PC mechanisms (PCI, ACPI) and doesn't
> need a special boot flow". Does that follow the definition of HVMlite?

Yes. HVMlite is going to use baremetal boot flow.

> OK great. That still means the code will run, and if we can avoid that
> why not. I am fine with annotating this as future work to help. Let me
> then ask as well, how about the rest of the code during and after
> startup_32() and startup_64() -- are we sure that's all safe ?

I can't be sure, all I can say is that so far I haven't seen any problems.

-boris