On December 2, 2016 9:49:50 PM PST, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: > >* Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> > It is tricky to do so safely, because at this stage almost nothing >of the C >> > execution environment has been set up. > >Yeah - but we do have a fair amount of early C code though. > >> I can still give it a try but I'd rather not tie it to this (Xen PVH) >patch >> series. Which would leave me with two options: either keep what this >patch does, >> leaving it as assembly (requires your ack), or have Xen code build >the pages on >> its own. > >If you give it a try in a subsequent patch (please Cc: me) then it's OK >to me: > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> > >Feel free to carry it in the Xen tree. > >Thanks, > > Ingo
It's true that it is now possible to run pre-paging C code. It would be so much better if Xen could simply go though the normal code path like any civilized machine. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
