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

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Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:53:14 +0200
From:	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>
To:	"Maliszewski, Richard L" <richard.l.maliszewski@...el.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

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 05:21:15PM +0000, Maliszewski, Richard L wrote:
> 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.

I realized that in SB case GRUB2 with linuefi patches does not have
a lot features (correct me if I am wrong). So you are able to just
load Linux or something which supports Linux Boot protocol. It is
not so flexible as it was designed. I think that it should be changed
and support for others systems/hypervisors should be added without
breaking SB support of course. GRUB2 upstream solution is preferred.

Daniel
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