[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 00/10] Xenstore communication support for Seabios

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:10 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:08:57AM +0900, Daniel Castro wrote:
> > As part of Google Summer of Code we are in the process to add Block
> > PV-drivers to Seabios, in order to this, first we have to be able to
> > communicate with xenstore so we can exchange information before the
> > front and back ends connect. To communicate with xenstore we need to
> > make seabios Xen-friendly so support for hypercalls has been added
> > to Seabios. In the next month, Seabios will become a front-end for
> > the block devices, connecting to dom0 back-end block device when
> > used with Xen.
> 
> Thanks Daniel.
> 
> It looks to me like this patch series adds capabilities that a later
> patch series will use. The patch series itself looks okay to me
> (though, I do find the multiple copyright statements in the middle of
> xen.h confusing).

That is a consequence of mashing bits of multiple Xen public headers
into a single xen.h. We could fracture it into xen/*.h instead if that
would be preferable?

>   However, I'd like to see the code with the end
> results before committing the framework code.
> 
> -Kevin
> 
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