On 10/30/2015 01:03 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
Will any of that^^ progress result in DIRECT-booting of Opensuse Dom0 on
EUFI hardware, removing the necessity to chainload?
No, at least as long as you want to keep grub in the picture: Work
towards this is only underway upstream (I can't really tell at this
point whether it'll make it into 4.7).
But as soon as you ignore grub2, direct boot has been supported
forever since EFI support got added to Xen (as of 4.2), utilizing
the EFI boot manager. The distro may not support setting this up,
but it can be set up manually (or you can also run xen.efi from the
EFI shell command prompt).
Noted.
IIRC, it had at one point been targeted for Xen 4.6; xlearly, that's
shifted.
Ideally, supported, distro-packaged 'integration' is preferred.
Any insight on direct boot using systemd boot with current/planned
Opensuse's Xen kernel(s)?
As of v220, systemd provides systemd-boot (formerly gummiboot)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Boot_loaders#systemd-boot
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot#EFI_boot
apparently capable of booting EFISTUB kernels.
As Opensuse 13.2's systemd remains < version 220, I've not yet tested.
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