On 17/04/18 01:13, Maran Wilson wrote: > For certain applications it is desirable to rapidly boot a KVM virtual > machine. In cases where legacy hardware and software support within the > guest is not needed, Qemu should be able to boot directly into the > uncompressed Linux kernel binary without the need to run firmware. > > There already exists an ABI to allow this for Xen PVH guests and the ABI > is supported by Linux and FreeBSD: > > https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/pvh.html > > This patch enables Qemu to use that same entry point for booting KVM > guests. > > Signed-off-by: Maran Wilson <maran.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> > Suggested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> You might want to send a follow-up patch to rename the functions in arch/x86/platform/pvh/* from xen_* to pvh_*. Juergen
