Any further thoughts on this patch series? Three out of four of them have been reviewed or acked by at least one reviewer, with only the last one currently unreviewed.
-- Trammell On Friday, October 2, 2020 1:18 PM, Trammell Hudson <hud...@trmm.net> wrote: > This patch series adds support for bundling the xen.efi hypervisor, > the xen.cfg configuration file, the Linux kernel and initrd, as well > as the XSM, and architectural specific files into a single "unified" > EFI executable. This allows an administrator to update the components > independently without requiring rebuilding xen, as well as to replace > the components in an existing image. > > The resulting EFI executable can be invoked directly from the UEFI Boot > Manager, removing the need to use a separate loader like grub as well > as removing dependencies on local filesystem access. And since it is > a single file, it can be signed and validated by UEFI Secure Boot without > requring the shim protocol. > > It is inspired by systemd-boot's unified kernel technique and borrows the > function to locate PE sections from systemd's LGPL'ed code. During EFI > boot, Xen looks at its own loaded image to locate the PE sections for > the Xen configuration (`.config`), dom0 kernel (`.kernel`), dom0 initrd > (`.ramdisk`), and XSM config (`.xsm`), which are included after building > xen.efi using objcopy to add named sections for each input file. > > Trammell Hudson (4): > efi/boot.c: add file.need_to_free > efi/boot.c: add handle_file_info() > efi: Enable booting unified hypervisor/kernel/initrd images > efi: Do not use command line if unified config is included > > .gitignore | 1 + > docs/misc/efi.pandoc | 49 ++++++++++++ > xen/arch/arm/efi/efi-boot.h | 36 ++++++--- > xen/arch/x86/efi/Makefile | 2 +- > xen/arch/x86/efi/efi-boot.h | 13 ++- > xen/common/efi/boot.c | 140 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > xen/common/efi/efi.h | 3 + > xen/common/efi/pe.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 8 files changed, 347 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 xen/common/efi/pe.c > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 2.25.1
