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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST v3 21/22] Debian: Arrange to be able to chainload a xen.efi from grub2



Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v3 21/22] Debian: Arrange to be able 
to chainload a xen.efi from grub2"):
> On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 11:33 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Is there some upstream-friendly way of achieving the same thing ?
> 
> Not AFAIK. I could try upstreaming this but given that a) the user still
> needs to manually copy things to the ESP and create a suitable xen.cfg
> and b) people are working on a better way which will just work with the
> existing non-UEFI grub.cfg file entries, I'm not sure how much point
> there is.

I think "people are working on a better way" is what I was looking
for.  When that change comes along, we can remove 20_linux_xen ?

> > I'm not really sure what is `specific to us' (or what `us' here means
> > - osstest, or Xen on arm64, or ...?)
> 
> All the paths are basically specific to us, just the general shape of
> the entry is more generically applicable.

`us' = osstest ?  Xen ?

Ian.

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