From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Kiper Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 14:58:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20150826125805.GC10861__14265.6440184966$1440593983$gmane$org@olila.local.net-space.pl> References: <1437402558-7313-11-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> <55D610DB020000780009C3F6@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <20150822135919.GY7143@olila.local.net-space.pl> <55DB1D99020000780009CAAC@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <20150824205445.GG7143@olila.local.net-space.pl> <55DC7705020000780009CE76@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <20150825163141.GJ7143@olila.local.net-space.pl> <55DD7CDE020000780009D086@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <20150826123356.GB10861@olila.local.net-space.pl> <55DDCFD6020000780009D226@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUaHd-0004A8-8f for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:58:29 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55DDCFD6020000780009D226@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: Juergen Gross , grub-devel@gnu.org, wei.liu2@citrix.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, roy.franz@linaro.org, ning.sun@intel.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, phcoder@gmail.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, qiaowei.ren@intel.com, keir@xen.org, richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com, gang.wei@intel.com, fu.wei@linaro.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 06:40:22AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 26.08.15 at 14:33, wrote: > > Do you suggest that I should put this functionality (PE with multiboot > > headers) on top of this patch series? Well, it is possible but this > > series is big and I would like to avoid to make it bigger. I prefer to > > get current patches into Xen tree and then work on new features (it > > should not take so long because as I can see we almost agreed most > > of stuff in that case). Or if at least half patches of current series > > will be accepted (as I can see there is a chance to do that with v3) > > then I can work on this functionality and put it on top of second not > > applied part. Does it make sense? > > Yes. I'm not objecting to deferring that part. All I want is you to make Great! > sure not to submit any changes potentially conflicting with the end OK. > goal of having a single binary (which as I understand it can only be a > PE one). This is the end goal but I think that we should have transitional phase when both formats (ELF and PE) are avaibale for users. Just in case. Daniel