From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1VmOKK-0006rq-16 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:41:48 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmOKG-0006r6-S5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:41:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmOKF-0005O0-Gt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:41:44 -0500 Received: from v6.chiark.greenend.org.uk ([2001:ba8:1e3::]:52855 helo=chiark.greenend.org.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VmOKF-0005N0-BB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:41:43 -0500 Received: from [172.20.153.9] (helo=riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org) by chiark.greenend.org.uk (Debian Exim 4.72 #1) with esmtps (return-path cjwatson@ubuntu.com) id 1VmOKE-0007GM-25 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:41:42 +0000 Received: from ns1.pelham.vpn.ucam.org ([172.20.153.2] helo=riva.ucam.org) by riva.pelham.vpn.ucam.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VmO3U-0008TI-1b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:24:24 +0000 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:24:22 +0000 From: Colin Watson To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: pvgrub2 is merged Message-ID: <20131129132422.GC16321@riva.ucam.org> References: <527EA084.6000706@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <527EA084.6000706@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:ba8:1e3:: 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: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:41:46 -0000 On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 09:52:20PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello, all. pvgrub2 has just became part of upstream grub as ports > i386-xen and x86_64-xen. Could anyone offer packaging advice for which ports should be built here? Is it reasonable to assume that a 32-bit userspace only needs the 32-bit Xen port and a 64-bit userspace only needs the 64-bit Xen port, or is it possible that there could be cross-architecture combinations here? Does the architecture of the GRUB port have to match the architecture of the Xen hypervisor? For those familiar with Debian packaging, I'm trying to work out whether it's sufficient to just build grub-xen{,-bin,-dbg} packages which would be i386-xen on i386 and x86_64-xen on amd64, or whether I have to have two variants on each architecture the way I do for EFI. All other things being equal I'd prefer to keep the package count as low as possible, but only if that won't break real-world use cases. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]