On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 22:30, Akihiro Suda <suda.kyoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'll queue this as a fix, but I'm going to tweak the comment (and the > > > commit log) a bit, if you don't mind > > Thank you for rewriting my comments, but the new comments seem > slightly incorrect: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=36e4fc57fc1619f462e669e939209c45763bc8f5 > > > efi: Bump stub image version for macOS HVF compatibility > > The commit is about Virtualization.framework, not about > Hypervisor.framework (HVF). > > Virtualization.framework = high-level VMM, similar to QEMU > (/usr/bin/qemu-system-*) > Hypervisor.framework = low-level VMM, similar to kvm.ko > > > The macOS hypervisor framework includes a host-side VMM called VZLinuxBootLoader > > VZLinuxBootLoader is a part of Virtualization.framework, not > Hypervisor.framework. > Also, VZLinuxBootLoader is not a VMM; it is just an API for loading > vmlinuz into Virtualization.framework. > (similar to the `-kernel` and the `-initrd` flags of QEMU) > Apologies for these mistakes. Unfortunately, this patch has been merged now so there is nothing we can do about it. > > On x86, it incorporates a BIOS style loader that does not implement or expose EFI to the loaded kernel. > > AFAICS, it does not seem to use real mode BIOS. > I never mentioned real mode, did I?
