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    SubjectRe: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
    >>> On 21.10.13 at 16:23, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
    > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
    >> >>> On 21.10.13 at 14:57, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote:
    >>
    >> (Looking at the Cc list it's quite interesting that you copied a
    >> whole lot of people, but not me as the maintainer of the EFI
    >> bits in Xen.)
    >
    > I see this:
    >
    > From: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
    > To: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, david.woodhouse@intel.com,
    > ian.campbell@citrix.com, jbeulich@suse.com, keir@xen.org,
    >
    >
    > You are on the 'To' instead of the 'CC'. That should make the email
    > arrive at your mailbox much quicker than through the mailing list?

    Indeed - I was clearly looking at the wrong place. I'm very sorry.

    >> > What do you think about that?
    >> > Any comments, suggestions, objections?
    >>
    >> The complications here make it pretty clear to me that the
    >> GrUB2-less solution (or, if GruB2 absolutely has to be involved,
    >> its chain loading capability) I have been advocating continues
    >> to be the better (and, as said before, conceptually correct)
    >> model.
    >
    > However my understanding is that the general distro approach is
    > to use GRUB2 and I think we want to follow the mainstream on this.
    > Which means using GRUB2 and making sense of the myrid of patches
    > that each distro has.

    As does ours - and we simply use the chain loading mechanism as
    I'm told (and as I suggested - I'm only occasionally involved in the
    secure boot stuff).

    Jan




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