Re: Where is fedora xen-4.16.0.efi?

[jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, 13 January 2022, 15:50:08 EDT, jim burns wrote:

> On Thursday, 13 January 2022, 15:00:51 EST, Michael Young wrote:

> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, jim burns wrote:

> > > Still want to know why MYoung omitted the efi blob from the official

> > > packages. Is this a new direction for xen 4.16?

> >

> > It went from the efi partition following the xen 4.16 code change that

> > put it there. I considered bringing it back elsewhere but haven't done

>

> so

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> > so far.

> >

> >      Michael Young

>

> That would be appreciated. As I said in the OP, it's nice to have an

> alternative to grub, if something goes FUBAR. Thanx for the info.

Finally tried booting on your xen-4.16.0.efi you provided in your latest update (after copying to /boot/ef/EFI/fedora). Xen booted correctly (with grub), printing its log on the console, but then it went blank when loading dom0. This happened with both kernel-5.18.0-0.rc1.18.fc37 and 5.17.1-300.fc36. After 5 min, it was still unresponsive.  However, dom0 came up correctly with 5.16.18-200.fc35.

What's interesting about the more recent kernels is they have simpledrm enabled, and 5.16 doesn't. Is there some new grub parameter I need for the console for xen or the kernel that would work better?

Also, less important, why is xen-4.16.0.efi so large now? It used to be 2.7M - now it is 33M. It limits what else I can have on my EFI system partition.

Thanx.