Re: [PATCH 0/2] improve loading of 32 bit PVH kernels

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Cc'ing Stefano

On 3/2/21 10:03 AM, David Edmondson wrote:
> While testing a non-Linux 32 bit PVH "kernel" (it's really just a
> bunch of test code), I ran into some problems with the current PVH
> loader in QEMU, which seems to work somewhat by accident for 32 bit
> kernels today, having been fortunate in the layout of the object files
> it typically encounters.
> 
> Non-PAE 32 bit Linux kernels still don't appear to work even with this
> change, but I think that problem is somewhere else (the kernel is
> loaded and starts, but the VM resets when it attempts to enable PG/PE)
> and I haven't tracked it down yet.
> 
> David Edmondson (2):
>   elf_ops: correct loading of 32 bit PVH kernel
>   x86/pvh: extract only 4 bytes of start address for 32 bit kernels
> 
>  hw/i386/x86.c        | 6 ++++--
>  include/hw/elf_ops.h | 4 +---
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>