Re: Where is fedora xen-4.16.0.efi?

[jim burns <jim_burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 19:45:37 EDT, jim burns wrote:

> Pls cc: me, as I am not subscribed.

>

> On Thursday, 13 January 2022, 15:50:08 EDT, jim burns wrote:

> > On Thursday, 13 January 2022, 15:00:51 EST, Michael Young wrote:

> > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, jim burns wrote:

> > > > Still want to know why MYoung omitted the efi blob from the official

> > > > packages. Is this a new direction for xen 4.16?

> > >

> > > It went from the efi partition following the xen 4.16 code change that

> > > put it there. I considered bringing it back elsewhere but haven't done

> >

> > so

> >

> > > so far.

> > >

> > >      Michael Young

> >

> > That would be appreciated. As I said in the OP, it's nice to have an

> > alternative to grub, if something goes FUBAR. Thanx for the info.

>

> Finally tried booting on your xen-4.16.0.efi you provided in your latest

> update (after copying to /boot/ef/EFI/fedora). Xen booted correctly (with

> grub), printing its log on the console, but then it went blank when loading

> dom0. This happened with both kernel-5.18.0-0.rc1.18.fc37 and

> 5.17.1-300.fc36. After 5 min, it was still unresponsive.  However, dom0

> came up correctly with 5.16.18-200.fc35.

>

> What's interesting about the more recent kernels is they have simpledrm

> enabled, and 5.16 doesn't. Is there some new grub parameter I need for the

> console for xen or the kernel that would work better?

Oops, yeah - this part doesn't have anything to do with the .efi blob, since it's grub. Still curious why I didn't get any output, tho'. Thanx.

> Also, less important, why is xen-4.16.0.efi so large now? It used to be 2.7M

> - now it is 33M. It limits what else I can have on my EFI system partition.

>

> Thanx.