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Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
- To: "Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
- From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:23:44 +0100
- Cc: "grub-devel@xxxxxxx" <grub-devel@xxxxxxx>, "keir@xxxxxxx" <keir@xxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, "stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>, "ross.philipson@xxxxxxxxxx" <ross.philipson@xxxxxxxxxx>, "boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx" <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Maliszewski, Richard L" <richard.l.maliszewski@xxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 15:24:03 +0000
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 14:18 +0000, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> > I wonder why Linux can't make the EFI calls to fetch them itself?
>
> It can. It does. It prefers to. This is what the "EFI boot stub" is all about.
Good, this is what I thought, glad to see I'm not talking out my behind
for once!
> Seriously, forget bootloaders (especially grub2) and make it a COFF/PE
> executable. Then everything should just work, including Secure Boot
> etc.
>
> And bootloaders can still load that, of course.
Ack!
Ian.
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