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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

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?

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