Re: Xen 4.4 development update

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 09/08/13 21:01, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 05:09:35PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> * Xen EFI feature: Xen can boot from grub.efi
>>   owner: Daniel Kiper
>>   status: Just begun
>>   prognosis: Fair
> I think that you could change that to Good. I am working
> on it. Migration to xbi struct is almost finished and
> multiboot2 protocol works on machines with legacy BIOS.
> Now I am working on multiboot2 protocol for machines
> with EFI. Yesterday, I discovered some issues related
> to memory map passed via this protocol. Sadly it looks
> that taking into account current GRUB2 implementation
> only workaround is available. Final proper solution would
> require some changes in GRUB2. I will do that later.
>
> [...]
>
>> * Guest EFI booting
>>   - status: tianocore in-tree, some build problems.
>>     Needs new owner.
> I could take over ownership of this but it would have
> lowest priority on my task list now (major stuff only:
> 1 - multiboot2 protocl, 2 - EFI support for Xen in Linux
> Kernel, 3 - guest EFI booting).

OK -- I think for now then I'll leave it unclaimed, so that if any other 
enterprising developers show up they can take a look at it.

>
>> * Xen EFI feature: pvops dom0 able to make use of EFI run-time
>> services (external)
>>   owner: Daniel Kiper
>>   status: Just begun
> I am going to start work on it when I finish work on multiboot2 protocol.
>
> Additionally, I think that:
>    - new kexec implementation should be added to this list;
>      David Vrabel work on this; I think that patches are
>      quite mature and need only some polishing,
>    - unmodified_drivers should be removed because as I know
>      they are not maintained for very long time; if you
>      agree I could do that,
>    - as I saw there is a quite big mess in directory structure
>      used by installed Xen related stuff (especially in /var
>      and /usr); I have done some patches for myself but they
>      require some improvements to do public release; if you wish
>      I could work on this too.

It's up to you really -- if you are set on working on it, I'll put it on 
the list; but there is plenty to do othewise. :-)  What kinds of changes 
did you have in mind in particular?

  -George