Re: [PATCH v8 1/7] xen/pvh: Split CONFIG_XEN_PVH into CONFIG_PVH and CONFIG_XEN_PVH
From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 18:12:30 EST
On 12/6/18 5:49 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 06/12/18 23:34, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 12/6/18 5:11 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>> and also
>>>
>>> depends on !EFI
>>>
>>> because even though in principle it would be possible to write a PVH
>>> loader for UEFI, PVH's start info does not support the EFI handover
>>> protocol.
>> But we should be able to build the binary with both EFI and PVH?
> Can you? It's a completely different binary format, the EFI handover
> protocol is invoked via a special entry point and needs the Linux header
> format, not ELF.
Right, but I think it is desirable to be able to build both from the
same config file.
-boris