From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v3 21/22] Debian: Arrange to be able to chainload a xen.efi from grub2 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 08:07:34 +0100 Message-ID: <1435302454.17598.26.camel@citrix.com> References: <1435159944.28264.295.camel@citrix.com> <1435159961-22292-21-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> <21899.55559.43212.817471@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <1435232772.32500.49.camel@citrix.com> <21899.62925.356920.56798@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <20150625173141.GD2470@x230.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150625173141.GD2470@x230.dumpdata.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Ian Jackson , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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.