[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Start xen on UEFI system with grub
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:57:30PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 11/01/12 4:50 PM >>> > >On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> >>> On 11.09.12 at 15:17, Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > xen.efi not compile when we build xen on Wheezy and probably is not > >> > possible boot with lvm volume, fallback options ecc... > >> > >> Just get a suitable tool chain installed then. > >> > >> > UEFI with grub2 seem the best option but with xen hypervisor seem not > >> > load efi variable. > >> > >> Sure, because only xen.efi has the code to deal with such. > >> > >> (Btw., I assume you aren't aware that any boot manager > >> whatsoever, other than the one coming with EFI, is sort of > >> bogus under EFI?) > > > >Unfortunately it looks like more and more people are of the opinion that > >grub2 is useful even on UEFI firmware. > >For example, it is pretty clear that Ubuntu is still going to boot Xen > >via grub2 no matter how the firmware looks like. > > Then they need to be tought how to do it properly, the more that Linux itself > now is capable of booting without a boot loader (other than the EFI one). > > >What would it take to make Xen work properly with grub2 on a UEFI firmware? > > I can't be that difficult. I believe the only issue was the check to do the Multiboot-E820 parsing before the E801 parsing? Perhaps that has already been done? > > >I think that we should add it as a work item for Xen 4.3. > > If you have someone to do that work. I'm willing to review the resulting > changes, but I currently don't see me doing anything here (as being totally > unimportant and - just to repeat that - conceptually wrong). > > Jan > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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