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

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Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:46:43 +0200
From:	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	ian.campbell@...rix.com, ross.philipson@...rix.com,
	stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com, grub-devel@....org,
	david.woodhouse@...el.com, richard.l.maliszewski@...el.com,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, pjones@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, keir@....org
Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 03:37:21PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 21.10.13 at 16:23, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.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@...cle.com> wrote:

[...]

> >> > 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).

Do you think about GRUB2 chainloader command?

Daniel
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