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

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Message-Id: <5266426402000078000FC991@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:16:20 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Daniel Kiper" <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>
Cc:	<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>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	<pjones@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <keir@....org>
Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

>>> On 21.10.13 at 20:46, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com> wrote:
> 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:
>> > 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?

Sure.

Jan

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