Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 04/12] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 01/27/2016 02:00 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Worth mentioning here also is hpa's clarification on when subarch type
> > PC (0) should be used: [it should be used if the hardware is]
> > "enumerable using standard PC mechanisms (PCI, ACPI) and doesn't need
> > a special boot flow" -- does that fit HVMLite's description so far? If
> > so then The Xen subarch may need to be redefined as well to be clear
> > what it means. I don't think we need to be precise but at the very
> > least cover grounds to enable the definitions to meet its actual use
> > to not confuse users.
> Another thing to consider for HVMlite is that if the 0 subarch (PC) is
> used in light of my linker table work and x86's use of it with the
> subarch and supported subarch bitmask, is that it would also mean
> HVMLite would run all routines currently pegged as needing PC type
> (the current KVM and bare metal path) and it would mean not running
> anything only pegged with Xen subarch type (but note that today Xen
> doesn't even set the subarch type). If there is nothing in common
> between PV and HVMlite (no x86 init calls to share), and if HVMLite
> *can* call *alllllllll* PC init calls, then by all means this is fine,

Yes, that's the idea. HVMlite jumps to startup_32|64 from the stub and 
runs from there with subarch 0.

-boris

> and if we just need to distinguish stuff between PC types that's fine,
> it may still be possible to further extend hypervisor_type to the x86
> init calls I'm adding as another supported_hyper_types to ensure even
> though a subarch is being used, that we also check the supported
> hypervisor type as well.
>
>   Luis