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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:44:53 -0700
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Re:

	> The final goal is xen.efi binary file which could be loaded by EFI
	> loader, multiboot (v1) protocol (only on legacy BIOS platforms) and
	> multiboot2 protocol. This way we will have:
	>   - smaller Xen code base,
	>   - one code base for xen.gz and xen.efi,
	>   - one build method for xen.gz and xen.efi;
	>     xen.efi will be extracted from xen file
	>     using objcopy; PE header will be contained
	>     in ELF file and will precede Xen code,
	>   - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend
	>     on a given GCC and binutils version.


As of v220, systemd provides systemd-boot (formerly gummiboot)

     https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Boot_loaders#systemd-boot
     https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot#EFI_boot

and is apparently capable of booting EFISTUB kernels.

Will the aforementioned goals enable direct boot using systemd-boot on 
EFI platforms ?  Or is it possible even now?

As my current test distro is Opensuse, with systemd v < 220, I've not 
yet tested.