[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v3 21/22] Debian: Arrange to be able to chainload a xen.efi from grub2
On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 13:31 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:36:29PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v3 21/22] Debian: Arrange to be > > able to chainload a xen.efi from grub2"): > > > On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 11:33 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > Is there some upstream-friendly way of achieving the same thing ? > > > > > > Not AFAIK. I could try upstreaming this but given that a) the user still > > > needs to manually copy things to the ESP and create a suitable xen.cfg > > > and b) people are working on a better way which will just work with the > > > existing non-UEFI grub.cfg file entries, I'm not sure how much point > > > there is. > > > > I think "people are working on a better way" is what I was looking > > for. When that change comes along, we can remove 20_linux_xen ? > > Not sure if he speaks of Daniel and me doing things in that arena? Yes, plus Fu Wei from Linaro's work on multiboot_xen for arm64. > There is one outstanding patch for 20_linux_xen that adds the proper > 'multiboot2' for the Xen? My assumption was that once these things landed that just running "update-grub" would result in a working grub.cfg config, which I would assume would need something in upstream grub's 20_linux_xen at least for the x86 case, yes. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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