Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] add upstream GRUB to the Xen build system

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 13/03/15 15:33, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Clone and build upstream GRUB to generate x86_64 and i386 pvgrub2
> > binaries. See Ian's blog post for more information:
> 
> Why?  If pvgrub2 is available on the system libxl should make use of it,
> but there doesn't seem to be a good reason for cloning and building yet
> another third-party project as part of the Xen build.
> 
> At a minimum this needs a configure option to disable it.

It is the only way to boot grub2 pv guests securely.  More importantly
it is also the first step toward adding an osstest test for upstream
grub.

Finally it will allow us to get rid of pvgrub1 in the future. As a
matter of fact I already have a patch to remove pvgrub, if the
maintainers feel that it is already the time I am happy to send it out.

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