Re: [Xen-devel] Xen branches

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Ian Jackson, le Thu 24 Nov 2011 16:54:27 +0000, a écrit :
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes ("[Xen-devel] Xen branches"):
> > Hello, all. I have push some work for paravirtualised GRUB2 to XEN
> > branch: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/branches/xen. Currently only
> > x86-64 (I'm much less interested in i386). What works:
> > - modules, normal mode, console, date, all of the all-platform commands
> > (not all are tested though)
> > What doesn't (not implemented):
> > -network
> > -disks
> > -loaders
> > -most of platform-specific commands (well as expected, xen is a separate
> > platforms so its platform-specific commands will be different if any)
> > What's kludgy:
> > -Finding and checking xen headers (/usr/include hardcoded, no checking,
> > also it's so annoying that xen mixes its kernels intended for standalone
> > environment with standard userspace headers)
> > -Stack. Right now I just allocate space in .bss.
> > -Heap. Likewise.
> 
> This is exciting.  We've been wanting a pv grub2 for some time.  Do
> you think this work will be upstreamable into grub2 master ?

(Just for the record: Vladimir *is* upstream :) I just added the Cc to
Xen-devel to the grub-devel thread)

Samuel