From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Notes from Xen BoF at Debconf15 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:20:32 +0100 Message-ID: <1442409632.18856.58.camel@citrix.com> References: <1441704296.24450.24.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcCdq-0007rg-0K for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:20:54 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1441704296.24450.24.camel@citrix.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: xen-devel , Debian Xen Team List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:24 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Embedding in xen.git > ==================== > > We are much better about providing ways to use system-supplied > components these days (since 4.4) and Debian uses them. > > Waldi noted that iPXE did not have such an option. Since that iPXE is > only used by qemu-trad (for qemu-upstream the iPXE comes from the PCI > ROM BAR) and Debian disabled qemu-trad it should be pretty quick to > patch the build system to disable iPXE. I went to do this, and found that ipxe is already only built if ROMBIOS is enabled and ROMBIOS is disabled by default if qemu-trad is not enabled (which it is not in the Debian packaging). So I think this is already addressed! I don't think it is worth at this point allowing to control ipxe separately from ROMBIOS (or at least such a task is nowhere near the top of my todo list). Ian.