From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>,
The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Uniform commands for booting xen
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:50:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1447408236.18450.117.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA91j0Wz++uchzCDwDEPBSf+k2kYy7iMEuPJfWBSap-ZQq_X2A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2015-11-13 at 12:04 +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > How do you express modules other than kernel+initrd in that
> > scheme, without grub needing to be aware of any new addition we
> > may find necessary going forward?
> >
>
> Are modules used by Xen self-identifying? Is it enough to simply pass
> Xen kernel list of binary blobs or Xen kernel must be told what these
> binary blobs are? If they are self identifying, why arm needs to be
> passed module type in the first place?
At first Xen/ARM required the bootloader to identify, but that was since
identified as causing madness and fixed by having Xen/ARM do as Xen/x86
does and figure things out for itself, but I failed to communicate this
clearly and things got implemented on the grub side under the old
assumptions.
I just replied in more detail about that to Jan's mail, so I won't repeat
myself further here.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-13 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 13:41 Uniform commands for booting xen Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-11-12 15:44 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2015-11-12 16:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-11-12 16:58 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-11-12 17:08 ` Jan Beulich
2015-11-12 17:11 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-11-12 17:09 ` Ian Campbell
2015-11-13 7:48 ` Jan Beulich
2015-11-13 9:04 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-11-13 9:50 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2016-01-11 14:06 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-01-11 14:32 ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-11 14:58 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-01-11 15:36 ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-18 10:28 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-22 9:14 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-11-13 9:48 ` Ian Campbell
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