Re: kern/55958: pciback.hide parsing error

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55958; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>
To: Aleksey Arens <aza.sea.agenda%gmail.com@localhost>, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/55958: pciback.hide parsing error
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:39:58 -0800

 On Jan 27, 22:09, Aleksey Arens wrote:
 }
 } A subsequent discussion at #xendevel ensued.  It was learned that as a
 } matter of fact, Xen does expect multiboot protocol for module loading.
 } Also, a reference to a respective implementation in FreeBSD was
 } suggested:
 }   https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/stand/i386/libi386/multiboot.c#n253
 
 [snip]
 
      I'm pretty sure that somebody previously mentioned that Xen
 requires multiboot.  I've haven't read your entire message, but
 unfortunately it appears that you have spent a lot of time on this
 for naught.  Our native bootloader can do multiboot and has been
 able to boot Xen for many years.  You should have a look here:
 http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/ and here:
 http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto/ .  This is from my development
 box:
 
 menu=Boot Xen with 6GB for dom0:load /netbsd.xen0 console=pc;multiboot /xen45-kernel/xen.gz dom0_mem=6GB dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin
 
 The "load" part is what does module loading (in this case, the
 NetBSD kernel which is built as a Xen module) and the "multiboot"
 part is what boots the Xen kernel.  Note that since it is my
 development box, I have many different variants of this line.
 
 }-- End of excerpt from Aleksey Arens