From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1RTd9w-0006Vi-KZ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:32:28 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTd9u-0006Vc-Ef for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:32:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTd9s-0003SE-LO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:32:26 -0500 Received: from toccata.ens-lyon.org ([140.77.166.68]:42130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTd9s-0003Rv-GX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:32:24 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by toccata.ens-lyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1D284086; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:32:11 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at toccata.ens-lyon.org Received: from toccata.ens-lyon.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (toccata.ens-lyon.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id UrsS9QMer6CK; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:32:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from type.ipv6 (unknown [91.103.36.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by toccata.ens-lyon.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B88284080; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:32:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from samy by type.ipv6 with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1RTd9d-0001JJ-MH; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:32:09 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:32:09 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: Ian Jackson Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen branches Message-ID: <20111124173209.GA4188@type> References: <20174.30403.935317.872549@mariner.uk.xensource.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20174.30403.935317.872549@mariner.uk.xensource.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.77.166.68 Cc: Vladimir =?utf-8?Q?'=CF=86-coder=2Fphcoder'?= Serbinenko , The development of GRUB 2 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:32:27 -0000 Ian Jackson, le Thu 24 Nov 2011 16:54:27 +0000, a =C3=A9crit : > Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes ("[Xen-devel] Xen bra= nches"): > > Hello, all. I have push some work for paravirtualised GRUB2 to XEN > > branch: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/branches/xen. Currently o= nly > > x86-64 (I'm much less interested in i386). What works: > > - modules, normal mode, console, date, all of the all-platform comman= ds > > (not all are tested though) > > What doesn't (not implemented): > > -network > > -disks > > -loaders > > -most of platform-specific commands (well as expected, xen is a separ= ate > > platforms so its platform-specific commands will be different if any) > > What's kludgy: > > -Finding and checking xen headers (/usr/include hardcoded, no checkin= g, > > also it's so annoying that xen mixes its kernels intended for standal= one > > environment with standard userspace headers) > > -Stack. Right now I just allocate space in .bss. > > -Heap. Likewise. >=20 > 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