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

[Daniel Castro]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> 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).  However, I'd like to see the code with the end
> results before committing the framework code.

Thanks Kevin for your feedback, this is just a milestone we have, this
is still a work in progress and hopefully we can submit the whole
change soon.

Daniel

>
> -Kevin
>



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