[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] xen: actually setup hypercalls.

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Jul 20 14:44:31 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:38:49AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:51 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > This was somehow dropped during the iterations of the original Xen patches.
> > It's actually harmless at the moment since there are no users of hypercalls but
> > patches are being written to support Xen PV block devices which need this.
> > 
> > It's not clear exactly how early this needs to be but I think it needs to be at
> > least before init_hw() (since that would detect disk devices). I put it first
> > in maininit() since the only dependency is malloc().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
> 
> Ping?

Sorry for the delay.  I'm okay with the patch.  If it doesn't need to
be at the top of maininit though, I'd prefer to move it down a bit.
How about after smm_init?

-Kevin



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