linux-kernel - Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

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Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 2013 17:21:15 +0000
From:	"Maliszewski, Richard L" <richard.l.maliszewski@...el.com>
To:	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>
CC:	Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
	<phcoder@...il.com>,
	The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@....org>,
	"Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@...el.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	"keir@....org" <keir@....org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	"stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com" <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xen.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	"ross.philipson@...rix.com" <ross.philipson@...rix.com>,
	"boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com" <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

The latter.  The code I was looking at definitely has the linuxefi
directive.  FWIW, if you install FC18/19 on an EFI system, the grub2
config file uses the linuxefi and companion initrd directives for launch.

--Richard

On 10/22/13 9:51 AM, "Daniel Kiper" <daniel.kiper@...cle.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:36:04PM +0000, Maliszewski, Richard L wrote:
>> I may be off-base, but when I was wading through the grub2 code earlier
>> this year, it looked to me like it was going to refuse to launch
>>anything
>> via MB1 or MB2 if the current state was a secure boot launch.
>
>Are you talking about upstream GRUB2 or GRUB2 with tons of distros
>patches including linuxefi one. If later one it could be the case.
>
>Daniel

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