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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add upstream GRUB to the Xen build system
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:58:19 +0000
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On 13/03/15 15:33, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Clone and build upstream GRUB to generate x86_64 and i386 pvgrub2
> binaries. See Ian's blog post for more information:

Why?  If pvgrub2 is available on the system libxl should make use of it,
but there doesn't seem to be a good reason for cloning and building yet
another third-party project as part of the Xen build.

At a minimum this needs a configure option to disable it.

David