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

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 13:31 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:36:29PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> Not sure if he speaks of Daniel and me doing things in that arena?

Yes, plus Fu Wei from Linaro's work on multiboot_xen for arm64.

> There is one outstanding patch for 20_linux_xen that adds the proper
> 'multiboot2' for the Xen?

My assumption was that once these things landed that just running
"update-grub" would result in a working grub.cfg config, which I would
assume would need something in upstream grub's 20_linux_xen at least for
the x86 case, yes.

Ian.


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