From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Kiper Subject: Re: Xen 4.3 development update, and stock-taking Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:32:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: JBeulich@suse.com Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, dkiper@net-space.pl, konrad.wilk@oracle.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>>> On 22.01.13 at 14:53, Daniel Kiper wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:12:40PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: >>> 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)? >> >> As I know there are some hooks which allows us to use EFI on some systems. >> However, I do not know how they could be used in PVOPS kernel. It requires >> some investigation (which I start doing). Maybe they are sufficient but >> maybe some of them or all should be changed (as it is the case in kaxec/kdump >> functionality). Anyway, I hope that I will have full view of that in ~1 month. > > No need to re-do everything from scratch - someone at Oracle > had initial patches ready quite some time ago (Konrad will likely > recall who that was, and maybe even have retained those > patches), they just needed some polishing iirc. Thanks. I have this patches but as I know they are at least one year old. Additionally, as I know there were some objections among Linux EFI maintainers and some issues should be solved. I am going to put all pieces of this puzzle together and see what is going on. Jan