From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Kiper Subject: Re: Status of multiboot2 support on EFI? Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 18:03:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20160203170350.GE20613@olila.local.net-space.pl> References: <56B0E0FE.3020806@gmail.com> <56B0E322.90203@citrix.com> <20160202204959.GL3485@olila.local.net-space.pl> <56B11980.4070103@gmail.com> <20160202212054.GN3485@olila.local.net-space.pl> <56B12499.1050005@cardoe.com> <20160203160844.GA20613@olila.local.net-space.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160203160844.GA20613@olila.local.net-space.pl> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Doug Goldstein Cc: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, pgnet.dev@gmail.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 05:08:44PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 03:50:17PM -0600, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > On 2/2/16 3:20 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 01:02:56PM -0800, PGNet Dev wrote: > > >> Here http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_EFI#Xen_as_gz_binary refers > > >> to original discussion in 2013 (work has been deferred to Xen 4.6. ) > > >> > > >> and says "work has been deferred to Xen 4.6." > > >> > > >>> I think that this should be Xen 4.8 target. > > >> > > >> That's roughly another year+ from now for EFI support? > > >> > > >> Per, http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap, there's no 4.8 > > >> info at all. > > >> > > >> But 8months plus 4.7 release =~ Feb 2017? > > > > > > Sadly I am not able to devote 100% of my time to this project right now. > > > Maybe it will happen when I finish our internal work. However, I think > > > that there is another option. You can help with some stuff on this issue. > > > This way we may finish whole project a bit earlier. > > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > PS I can post latest patchset (it does not contain all suggested fixes) > > > rebased on latest master. This way you can continue your work in > > > more friendly environment. Is it sufficient for you? > > > > Can you make a branch available somewhere? You don't even have to rebase > > it. That way others will be able to rebase and hopefully move it forward. > > Xen stuff is rebased because we needed it internally. I will rebase GRUB2 > patches for convenience too. I hope that I will post them somewhere by the > end of this week. > > Daniel > > PS If you want to work on any part of this project please coordinate > all stuff with me. However, as I said earlier I am going to restart > work on it in 2-3 weeks. Fortunately I was able to reschedule less important stuff and it looks that I will be able to restart work on this project next week (100% of my time). I am going to release GRUB2 v3 patches first and then Xen v3 patches will follow. I hope that helps. If you have any questions please drop me a line. Daniel