Re: [Linaro-uefi] [PATCH 0/5]arm64: Add multiboot support (via fdt) for Xen boot

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 10:32 +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> any suggestion for my patchset? 

Your CC list contains grub-devel, some other lists and a bunch of
individuals who are not actually grub developers, who are the ones I
think you actually need to be pinging. Perhaps try addressing some
relevant grub developer(s) directly?

> Please let me know if there are some place need to be fixed or
> improved, if these patches look good to you, can they be merged?
> 
> Any feedback or suggestion  is welcome! :-)
> Great thanks !
> 
> On 26 January 2015 at 22:32, Stefano Stabellini
> <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>         Ping?
>         
>         I think it would be great to have multiboot support in grub.
>         As a matter of fact without it grub cannot load xen on arm.
>         
>         
>         On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Fu Wei wrote:
>         > Hi everybody,
>         > any suggestion for my patchset?
>         > if these patches look fine, can they be merged?
>         >
>         > Any feedback is welcome! :-)
>         > Great thanks !
>         >
>         > On 9 January 2015 at 00:38, Ian Campbell
>         <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
>         >       On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 01:55 +0800, Fu Wei wrote:
>         >       > Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <fu.wei@linaro.org>
>         >       > Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm
>         <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
>         >
>         >       I've tested the code at
>         >
>          git://git.linaro.org/people/fu.wei/grub.git#multiboot_xen_support_upstream_v4.0
>         >       which I believe is the same as this posting on an AMD
>         Seattle system
>         >       with a 40_custom containing:
>         >
>         >               menuentry 'Baremetal' {
>         >                       insmod gzio
>         >                       insmod part_msdos
>         >                       insmod ext2
>         >                       set root='hd0,msdos2'
>         >                       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid
>         --set=root d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
>         >                       linux /boot/vmlinuz
>         console=ttyAMA0,115200n8 earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000
>         root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
>         >               }
>         >               menuentry 'Xen' {
>         >                       insmod gzio
>         >                       insmod part_msdos
>         >                       insmod ext2
>         >                       set root='hd0,msdos2'
>         >                       search --no-floppy --fs-uuid
>         --set=root d4178d5c-96a8-46ee-a304-0d87baa545cd
>         >                       multiboot /boot/xen no-bootscrub
>         console=dtuart conswitch=x dtuart=/smb/serial@e1010000
>         noreboot
>         >       sync_console dom0_mem=256M dom0_max_vcpus=1
>         >                       module /boot/vmlinuz-xen console=hvc0
>         earlycon=pl011,0xe1010000 root=/dev/sda2 rootwait
>         >               }
>         >
>         >       (my system is too confused for 10_linux or
>         20_linux_xen right now, but I
>         >       believe this is representative of what they would
>         emit)
>         >
>         >       The result was that I could boot both Baremetal and
>         Xen via grub. So:
>         >
>         >       Tested-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>         >
>         >       I've not looked at the code (although I did review
>         several older
>         >       iterations), would it be useful to the grub
>         maintainers for me to do so?
>         >
>         >       Ian.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > --
>         > Best regards,
>         >
>         > Fu Wei
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> 
> Fu Wei 
> Software Engineer 
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