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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: "Carsey, Jaben" <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
Cc: "Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>,
	"Ni, Ruiyu" <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>,
	 "Zimmer, Vincent" <vincent.zimmer@intel.com>,
	"Dong, Eric" <eric.dong@intel.com>,
	 "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>,
	"agraf@suse.de" <agraf@suse.de>, Andrew Fish <afish@apple.com>,
	 "Richardson, Brian" <brian.richardson@intel.com>,
	 "Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	"Zeng, Star" <star.zeng@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] MdeModulePkg: add support for dispatching foreign arch PE/COFF images
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:11:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu8_ciGhp3xV8RnG27rTs89wVkt+wTF51-P6CTtQWDaXsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB6E33457884FA40993F35157061515CA41384F9@FMSMSX103.amr.corp.intel.com>

On 12 September 2018 at 17:07, Carsey, Jaben <jaben.carsey@intel.com> wrote:
> Ard,
>
> What happens when more than one emulators want to co-exist?
>

The protocol does not support that at the moment, and it is doubtful
that it would work in practice: the X86-on-AARCH64 emulator works by
mapping the X86 PE/COFF code regions as non-executable, and trapping
the resulting exception to invoke the emulator. Running multiple
emulators side by side would require a considerable amount of
synchronization, so it only makes sense to consider that if there is a
compelling use case. And if there is, we could still abstract from
this at the top level (i.e., this protocol)


  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-12 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-12 13:21 [PATCH 0/4] MdeModulePkg: add support for dispatching foreign arch PE/COFF images Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-12 13:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] MdeModulePkg: introduce PE/COFF image emulator protocol Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-13 10:05   ` Zeng, Star
2018-09-13 10:36     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-12 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] MdeModulePkg/DxeCore: invoke the emulator protocol for foreign images Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-13 10:23   ` Zeng, Star
2018-09-13 10:37     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-12 13:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] MdeModulePkg/PciBusDxe: invoke PE/COFF emulator for foreign option ROMs Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-13 10:24   ` Zeng, Star
2018-09-13 10:46     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-12 13:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] MdeModulePkg/UefiBootManagerLib: allow foreign Driver#### images Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-12 14:55 ` [PATCH 0/4] MdeModulePkg: add support for dispatching foreign arch PE/COFF images Gao, Liming
2018-09-12 14:56   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-12 15:07     ` Carsey, Jaben
2018-09-12 15:11       ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2018-09-12 15:10 ` Kinney, Michael D
2018-09-13 10:36   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-13 17:20     ` Kinney, Michael D
2018-09-15 13:28       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-17  4:03         ` Kinney, Michael D
2018-09-19 19:35         ` Andrew Fish
2018-09-19 20:43           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-21 18:51             ` Andrew Fish
2018-09-12 15:48 ` Carsey, Jaben
2018-09-12 18:50   ` Zimmer, Vincent
2018-09-13  0:47 ` Shi, Steven
2018-09-13  5:18   ` Ard Biesheuvel

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