Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] XEN domU crash when PV grub chainloads 32-bit domU grub

2015-09-22 Thread Ian Campbell
Hi Vladimir & grub-devel, Do you have any thoughts on this issue with i386 pv-grub2? Thanks, Ian. On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 22:03 +0200, Andreas Sundstrom wrote: > This is using Debian Jessie and grub 2.02~beta2-22 (with Debian patches > applied) and Xen 4.4.1 > > I originally posted a bug report w

Re: [PATCH] Ensure that MIPS target code is compiled for the O32 ABI.

2015-09-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andrei Borzenkov writes: > Did you also test cross-compile No. My Yeeloong 8101B (based on the Loongson 2F processor) is my (relatively) high security machine, and I prefer to avoid running any code on it that was not built natively on it from source code. That's also the reason I have not yet

Re: [PATCH v2 20/23] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms

2015-09-22 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 06:01:26AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 20.07.15 at 16:29, wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper > > For a patch of this size, no description at all seems rather > problematic. > > > --- a/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S > > +++ b/xen/arch/x86/boot/head.S > > @@ -89,6 +89,

Re: [PATCH v2 20/23] x86: add multiboot2 protocol support for EFI platforms

2015-09-22 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 22.09.15 at 17:21, wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 06:01:26AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 20.07.15 at 16:29, wrote: >> > @@ -130,6 +146,119 @@ print_err: >> > .Lhalt: hlt >> > jmp .Lhalt >> > >> > +.code64 >> > + >> > +__efi64_start: >> > +cld >> > +

Re: [PATCH v2 21/23] x86/boot: implement early command line parser in C

2015-09-22 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 06:43:39AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 20.07.15 at 16:29, wrote: > > Current early command line parser implementation in assembler > > is very difficult to change to relocatable stuff using segment > > registers. This requires a lot of changes in very weird and > > f

Re: [PATCH] Ensure that MIPS target code is compiled for the O32 ABI.

2015-09-22 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
Отправлено с iPhone > 22 сент. 2015 г., в 17:03, Mark H Weaver написал(а): > > Andrei Borzenkov writes: >> Did you also test cross-compile > > No. My Yeeloong 8101B (based on the Loongson 2F processor) is my > (relatively) high security machine, and I prefer to avoid running any > code on i

Re: Development practices?

2015-09-22 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:34:53AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > .. snip.. > > > From what I have gathered so far the not enough reviewers > > >is tied in folks being overworked - so there simply was no > > >point of posting on the mailing list as nobody had the time > > >to

[PATCH] Make UEFI watchdog behaviour configurable

2015-09-22 Thread Arthur Mesh
Starting with d9a0c9413e81d3c0affc6383693bdd28dc863a5c, GRUB unconditionally disables watchdog on EFI platforms. This opens up a window (starting at GRUB's grub_efi_init(), until OS re-enables it) when EFI system operates w/o watchdog. If an EFI system gets stuck in that window, the chipset will ne