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

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Message-ID: <1382455424.18283.32.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:23:44 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
To:	"Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@...el.com>
CC:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>,
	"ross.philipson@...rix.com" <ross.philipson@...rix.com>,
	"stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com" <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	"grub-devel@....org" <grub-devel@....org>,
	"Maliszewski, Richard L" <richard.l.maliszewski@...el.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xen.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	"boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com" <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>,
	"Peter Jones" <pjones@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"keir@....org" <keir@....org>
Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 14:18 +0000, Woodhouse, David wrote:
> > I wonder why Linux can't make the EFI calls to fetch them itself?
> 
> It can. It does. It prefers to. This is what the "EFI boot stub" is all about.

Good, this is what I thought, glad to see I'm not talking out my behind
for once!

> Seriously, forget bootloaders (especially grub2) and make it a COFF/PE
> executable.  Then everything should just work, including Secure Boot
> etc.
> 
> And bootloaders can still load that, of course.

Ack!

Ian.

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