Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:37:21 +0100 | From | "Jan Beulich" <> | Subject | Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen |
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>>> 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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