* Re: [Xen-devel] Xen branches [not found] <m2n.s.1RQqJL-149396@chiark.greenend.org.uk> @ 2011-11-24 16:54 ` Ian Jackson 2011-11-24 17:32 ` Samuel Thibault 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Ian Jackson @ 2011-11-24 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko Cc: The development of GRUB 2, Samuel Thibault Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes ("[Xen-devel] Xen branches"): > Hello, all. I have push some work for paravirtualised GRUB2 to XEN > branch: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/branches/xen. Currently only > x86-64 (I'm much less interested in i386). What works: > - modules, normal mode, console, date, all of the all-platform commands > (not all are tested though) > What doesn't (not implemented): > -network > -disks > -loaders > -most of platform-specific commands (well as expected, xen is a separate > platforms so its platform-specific commands will be different if any) > What's kludgy: > -Finding and checking xen headers (/usr/include hardcoded, no checking, > also it's so annoying that xen mixes its kernels intended for standalone > environment with standard userspace headers) > -Stack. Right now I just allocate space in .bss. > -Heap. Likewise. This is exciting. We've been wanting a pv grub2 for some time. Do you think this work will be upstreamable into grub2 master ? Ian. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [Xen-devel] Xen branches 2011-11-24 16:54 ` [Xen-devel] Xen branches Ian Jackson @ 2011-11-24 17:32 ` Samuel Thibault 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Samuel Thibault @ 2011-11-24 17:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ian Jackson Cc: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, The development of GRUB 2 Ian Jackson, le Thu 24 Nov 2011 16:54:27 +0000, a écrit : > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes ("[Xen-devel] Xen branches"): > > Hello, all. I have push some work for paravirtualised GRUB2 to XEN > > branch: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/branches/xen. Currently only > > x86-64 (I'm much less interested in i386). What works: > > - modules, normal mode, console, date, all of the all-platform commands > > (not all are tested though) > > What doesn't (not implemented): > > -network > > -disks > > -loaders > > -most of platform-specific commands (well as expected, xen is a separate > > platforms so its platform-specific commands will be different if any) > > What's kludgy: > > -Finding and checking xen headers (/usr/include hardcoded, no checking, > > also it's so annoying that xen mixes its kernels intended for standalone > > environment with standard userspace headers) > > -Stack. Right now I just allocate space in .bss. > > -Heap. Likewise. > > 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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