Re: [PATCH 0/2] xen/efi: Make boot more flexible, especially with GRUB2

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 04:58:43PM +0100, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So, it looks like major distributions use a patched grub version that
> > changes behavior of "linux" command. IIUC many of those patches are
> > about hardening SecureBoot, and shim-review kinda suggest using patched
> > version (many of the submissions explicitly mention the at least patch
> > grub for NX). So, I think this needs figuring out how to make your
> > approach working with grub flavor that is actually used by SB-enabled
> > distributions...
> >
> 
> We (xenserver) would like to provide booting using separate
> hypervisor, kernel and initrd.
> Using "linux" was an old discussed option which had a nice usage.
> The merged patches allow to have a fully UKI file bundling kernel and
> initrd loaded from no-ESP partition which is nice to have.
> For the final solution I was thinking about using "xen_hypervisor" and
> "xen_module" already present for ARM. From the user perspective is
> surely less confusing than using "linux" to pass something which is
> not Linux.

In which case, loading initrd using Linux-specific grub part doesn't
make sense, no? Or is that xen_module going to use similar mechanism?

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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