From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update, and stock-taking Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:12:40 +0000 Message-ID: <50FD4CD8.1010509@eu.citrix.com> References: <50F7CDBF02000078000B6A95@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <50F7DCA2.1070405@eu.citrix.com> <20130118112032.GA25342@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130118112032.GA25342@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Daniel Kiper Cc: "daniel.kiper@oracle.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , Jan Beulich , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 18/01/13 11:20, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:12:34AM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: > > [...] > >> OK, so I think the description needs an update, then. For Xen to be >> fully featured, I think it would need all of the following: >> * An EFI-bootable dom0 (this should be done, right?) >> * dom0 able to make use of EFI run-time services >> * Xen able to use EFI boot-time services (?) >> * Xen able to detect the existence of a signed Linux binary, and leave >> EFI boot-time services enabled for dom0 to use when appropriate >> * dom0 able to use boot-time EFI services and disable them when done > I am slowly starting work on EFI stuff in Xen and dom0 with upstream Linux Kernel. > I am preparing my new platform for this now. At first I am going to figure out what > works and what does not work. Additionally, I am going to work on GRUB2 to properly > load Xen and other needed stuff. I think that final goal is to have Xen evironment > working in all possible EFI configs. > > You could assign me to this task. OK, I've added you as the owner. Do you think the Xen-side EFI hooks might be ready by the 4.3 feature freeze (scheduled for March 25)? -George