From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1YL6lU-000140-7Q for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 04:05:52 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YL6lN-00013a-IP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 04:05:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YL6lI-0004RS-Ua for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 04:05:45 -0500 Received: from mail.emea.novell.com ([130.57.118.101]:59129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YL6lI-0004QO-Lw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 04:05:40 -0500 Received: from EMEA1-MTA by mail.emea.novell.com with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:05:38 +0000 Message-Id: <54D9D7F0020000780005E7AB@mail.emea.novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 14.0.1 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:05:36 +0000 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Daniel Kiper" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] x86: multiboot2 protocol support References: <1422640462-28103-1-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com> <20150209175917.GD2227@olila.local.net-space.pl> In-Reply-To: <20150209175917.GD2227@olila.local.net-space.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.57.118.101 Cc: Juergen Gross , grub-devel@gnu.org, keir@xen.org, 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, 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: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:05:50 -0000 >>> On 09.02.15 at 18:59, wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 06:54:04PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: >> 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. >=20 > 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? I didn't get to look at patches 4 and onwards yet, there's too much other stuff I need to take care of right now; I'll get to this eventually. Jan