From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1VYN1u-000289-Uk for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:28:50 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYN0a-0001ZA-43 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:27:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYN0R-0006LG-Mk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:27:28 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-x230.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c00::230]:59179) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYN0R-0006L7-FX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:27:19 -0400 Received: by mail-ee0-f48.google.com with SMTP id e50so2446900eek.35 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:27:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; bh=hyyOeB6E0gJ09dkeHPOa/Vu1qec65LRiem7f3nGI8rQ=; b=t5vwwBqfK42mb9jPVqpxvgondBbjlDbnAL1SsbTp9upwaaD7yuduNgN/X97/MGotvL HAsEAyOhir1CQG5PG3ls0lpujuUdl/LIw2Mx05F4fNqqDVbyjpMQ060qaLN4TaCWWxbm vYhqa7RR+CQBVVf31Bnq4BI98/4/uLOy1QbK1hu+YvTEB/hVE1Wxh5OiIDRNeYMv6TK2 vRq2cLn5ucyvf+DvTWKDsu4e2PnCirGhJ0hxkFUZLlCkYZGGuPEdKHJVsUTcSN2Z6KA6 lMz7jqn/tIQIIg8G459+9yoKL3vFrxjiNDiOpYVp1YCtTYPwqkMFLzeiY06fOyjJDYdN Rh6A== X-Received: by 10.15.45.8 with SMTP id a8mr25038837eew.1.1382390838710; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.16] (31-249.1-85.cust.bluewin.ch. [85.1.249.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f49sm48383263eec.7.2013.10.21.14.27.16 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:27:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52659C34.6010508@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:27:16 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131005 Icedove/17.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen References: <20131021125756.GA3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2PDWWOOPFOAROEORGODRU" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c00::230 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:28:49 -0400 Cc: keir@xen.org, david.woodhouse@intel.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, jbeulich@suse.com, Seth Goldberg , ross.philipson@citrix.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com 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: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:27:36 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2PDWWOOPFOAROEORGODRU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 21.10.2013 22:53, Seth Goldberg wrote: >=20 >=20 > Quoting Daniel Kiper, who wrote the following on Mon, 21 Oct 2013: >=20 >> Hi, >> >> During work on multiboot2 protocol support for Xen it was discovered >> that memory map passed via relevant tag could not represent wide range= >> of memory types available on EFI platforms. Additionally, GRUB2 >> implementation calls ExitBootServices() on them just before jumping >> into loaded image. In this situation loaded system could not clearly >> identify reserved memory regions, EFI runtime services regions and >> others. >=20 > Yes, that is exactly why we added full support to pass the entire UEF= I > memory map via a new tag. >=20 Can you send this patch? Or provide a link to publically available source? I think we can accept it with probably just minor changes. ------enig2PDWWOOPFOAROEORGODRU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREKAAYFAlJlnDQACgkQNak7dOguQgkeTQEAm3P4kiG965hqIu0AmvKuBgxe viWMF+Irlm/ntfuug3EBAKax39HHiu9vnHRT0anXBomCrexYPDyOr0HW/F26EXuy =MyhS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2PDWWOOPFOAROEORGODRU--