Re: Xen 4.3 development update, and stock-taking

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 18/01/13 11:20, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:12:34AM +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
>
> [...]
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>> OK, so I think the description needs an update, then.  For Xen to be
>> fully featured, I think it would need all of the following:
>> * An EFI-bootable dom0 (this should be done, right?)
>> * dom0 able to make use of EFI run-time services
>> * Xen able to use EFI boot-time services (?)
>> * Xen able to detect the existence of a signed Linux binary, and leave
>> EFI boot-time services enabled for dom0 to use when appropriate
>> * dom0 able to use boot-time EFI services and disable them when done
> I am slowly starting work on EFI stuff in Xen and dom0 with upstream Linux Kernel.
> I am preparing my new platform for this now. At first I am going to figure out what
> works and what does not work. Additionally, I am going to work on GRUB2 to properly
> load Xen and other needed stuff. I think that final goal is to have Xen evironment
> working in all possible EFI configs.
>
> You could assign me to this task.

OK, I've added you as the owner.  Do you think the Xen-side EFI hooks 
might be ready by the 4.3 feature freeze (scheduled for March 25)?

  -George