Re: Xen 4.5 development update (July update)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 08:40:35PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 15.08.14 at 19:23, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > *  Xen multiboot2-EFI support (fair)
> >    Needed for SecureBoot
> >    Depends on Xen Boot info (rework multiboot and other structs)
> >    See http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-05/msg02281.html 
> >    RFC posted
> >   -  Daniel Kiper
> 
> I think the qualification above should be changed from "Needed for
> SecureBoot" to "Needed to work with GrUB2" - after all, secure
> booting works quite fine without that code in place.

<nods> Is there an document describing how to do that? (I presume
you need to build xen.efi with a signature?)

> 
> > *  1TB slow destruction (ok)
> >   -  Bob Liu
> 
> I haven't seen any progress here for quite a while, and based on the
> last iteration I don't think this will get ready in time.

Good point. Moving it to defered.
> 
> > *  Support controlling the max C-state sub-state (ok)
> >    v3 posted
> >   -  Ross Lagerwall
> 
> This is stalled on a conceptional issue (it being unclear how to
> express this via a meaningful command line option value).

OK, moving to defered.
> 
> Jan
>