From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1YKscY-00030P-0g for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:59:42 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKscW-000306-9T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:59:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKscQ-0008RL-Tg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:59:40 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:19682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKscQ-0008Qn-Lw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:59:34 -0500 Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t19HxRAv017110 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 9 Feb 2015 17:59:28 GMT Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t19HxPuA027223 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 9 Feb 2015 17:59:26 GMT Received: from abhmp0001.oracle.com (abhmp0001.oracle.com [141.146.116.7]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t19HxOgb022520; Mon, 9 Feb 2015 17:59:25 GMT Received: from olila.local.net-space.pl (/10.175.223.139) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 09:59:24 -0800 Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:59:17 +0100 From: Daniel Kiper To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support Message-ID: <20150209175917.GD2227@olila.local.net-space.pl> References: <1422640462-28103-1-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1422640462-28103-1-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 Cc: jgross@suse.com, keir@xen.org, ian.campbell@citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, roy.franz@linaro.org, ning.sun@intel.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, jbeulich@suse.com, phcoder@gmail.com, qiaowei.ren@intel.com, richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com, gang.wei@intel.com, fu.wei@linaro.org X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:59:41 -0000 Hi all, On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 06:54:04PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > > I am sending, long awaited, first version of multiboot2 protocol > support for legacy BIOS and EFI platforms. > > The final goal is xen.efi binary file which could be loaded by EFI > loader, multiboot (v1) protocol (only on legacy BIOS platforms) and > multiboot2 protocol. This way we will have: > - smaller Xen code base, > - one code base for xen.gz and xen.efi, > - one build method for xen.gz and xen.efi; > xen.efi will be extracted from xen file > using objcopy; PE header will be contained > in ELF file and will precede Xen code, > - xen.efi build will not so strongly depend > on a given GCC and binutils version. I have not received so many comments on this patch series. Is there no interest in having this feature in Xen? Is there anything wrong? Should I fix something? Daniel