From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: Xen 4.4 development update Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:22:24 +0100 Message-ID: <520B8490.3000802@eu.citrix.com> References: <20130809200131.GA3831@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: <20130809200131.GA3831@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: jbeulich@suse.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" , david.vrabel@citrix.com, ross.philipson@citrix.com, richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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