[coreboot] kexec of Xen hypervisor from a Linux payload

[Ward Vandewege]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:09:18PM -0600, Trammell Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 09:37:20AM -0600, Trammell Hudson wrote:
> > [...]
> > Unfortunately 3.1.3 is ancient; I'm going to build the more modern
> > Xen 4.6.x to see if I can repeat these fixes to boot into Qubes.
> 
> This required a few more hacks, but it works now.  The problem is not
> with Coreboot, but with Xen assuming that there is a BIOS it can call
> to setup the video display and also assuming that there is an EBDA
> that contains pointers to various structures.
> 
> My 4.6.3 Xen tree is hacked up right now with stuff copied from old
> versions of the tree, so I'll clean it up and see if they are interested
> in accepting patches.

Oh, wow, thank you! Sorry that I didn't spend time tracking that down
properly back in 2008. I'd be interested to know if Xen takes the patch.

Thanks,
Ward.

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