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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] pygrub: remote ia64 from pygrub
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 19:59:22 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 06, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Olaf Hering writes ("[PATCH 06/11] pygrub: remote ia64 from pygrub"):
> > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> ...
> > -        if platform.machine() == 'ia64':
> > -            cfg_list = map(lambda x: (x,grub.LiloConf.LiloConfigFile), 
> > -                           # common distributions
> > -                           ["/efi/debian/elilo.conf", "/efi/gentoo/elilo.conf", 
> > -                            "/efi/redflag/elilo.conf", "/efi/redhat/elilo.conf", 
> 
> This seems related to ia64 using EFI.  Do we want to preserve this
> code for EFI support on other platforms ?

Do we have any guests supporting EFI as firmware? 
If so, the guest most likely uses grub2 instead of elilo.

Olaf