[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] ARM VM System Sepcification
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 09:08:37AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 22/03/2014 03:29, Christoffer Dall ha scritto: > >1. Simply mandate that VM implementations support persistent variables > > for their UEFI implementation - with whatever constraints that may > > put on higher level tools. > > > >2. Require that OSes shipped as part of compliant VM images make no > > assumption that changes to the UEFI environment will be stored. > > > >I feel that option number two will break in all sorts of cases, just > >like Grant stated above, and it is fundamentally not practical; if a > >distribution ships Linux with a UEFI stub that expects to be able to do > >something, distributions must modify Linux to conform to this spec. I > >think imagining that this spec controls how UEFI support in Linux/Grub > >is done in general would be overreaching. Additionally, Michael brought > >up the fact that it would be non-UEFI compliant. > > OSes are already able to cope with loss of changes to UEFI > environment are stored, because losing persistent variables is what > happens if you copy an image to a new hard disk. > > Asking implementations for support of persistent variables is a good > idea; however, independent of what is in the spec, OSes should not > expect that users will enable that support---most of them won't. > OK, fair enough, mandating support for persistent variable storage may be overreaching but at the same time I feel it is unlikely for this spec to reach far enough that a generic UEFI Linux loader, for example, actually follows it, and therefore explicitly mandating that guest OSes must be completely portable in all that they do is a non-practical constraint. That was the request that kicked this discussion off, and what I was trygint to address. -Christoffer _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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