Re: [Publicity] Xen 4.4 features for press release

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 10:06 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 01/07/2014 10:30 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 19:07 +0000, Lars Kurth wrote:
> >
> >> * GRUB 2 now supports PV xen images (external). In the past, Xen
> >> required a custom implementation of GRUB called pvgrub. The upstream
> >> GRUB 2 (see http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/) project now has a build
> >> target which will construct a bootable PV xen image.  This ensures
> >> 100% GRUB 2
> >> compatibility for pvgrub going forward.
> > "a custom implementation of GRUB1 called pvgrub" (specifically say grub1
> > here)
> >
> > "This ensures 100% GRUB 2 compatibility going forward" (drop pvgrub from
> > that sentence, since pvgrub is not affected by this grub2 work).
> 
> Isn't the PV port of grub2 a form of pvgrub?  What else would we call 
> this particular mode?

pvgrub2 perhaps?

I wanted to avoid giving the impression that the existing pvgrub code is
going to start working for grub2, when this is actually a completely
independent report of grub2.

Ian.


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