Re: [Xen-devel] 4.3 Planning: Taking stock

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 10:03 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 24.01.13 at 10:49, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 08:32 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 23.01.13 at 18:10, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> >> >>> wrote:
> >> > On 23/01/13 17:00, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >> The one feature here that requires work in our tree is to be able
> >> >> to boot via grub.efi (irrespective of how little I personally like 
> >> >> that);
> >> >> I'm not sure Daniel was also planning to look into that part.
> >> > 
> >> > Do you think not having this for 4.3 will be a potential problem for Xen?
> >> 
> >> The feature was reportedly missed by two or three people so far,
> >> all of which simply were told to go the currently working route. But
> >> I recall IanC saying something about Debian (or was it Ubuntu) not
> >> being willing to support the boot loader free approach...
> > 
> > I think both of them would prefer to have a standard bootloader
> > "experience" for both Linux and Xen.
> > 
> > Looking back at the Debian conversation what Bastian actually asked when
> > I suggested packaging the EFI hypervisor image was if the same image
> > could be used for UEFI and BIOS, which I suppose isn't exactly the same
> > as above since having the same binary (if that were even possible)
> > doesn't necessitate booting via a bootloader.
> 
> But a single binary is not an option - the ELF and MSDOS signatures
> both sit at file offset 0.

Yes, I thought you might say that ;-)

If we boot via grub is the binary the same there regardless of whether
it is grub-efi or grub-pc (/bios) ?

Ian.


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