Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 08:49:50AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: A fair bit of time has passed, we are now quite close to the freeze and this series adds a new binary package (hence NEW queue etc) so rather than committing I've pushed to the people/ijc/xen branch. Is it still OK to go ahead?

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-10-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 20:12 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 01:28:44AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Is there a policy regarding using e.g. people/foo branches in the main grub.git or shall I go create myself a gitorious repo for WIP stuff? Given that it's basically me, I

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-09-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 15:15 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: I mention this just in case there's a better way of organising this which might depend on a refinement to the host/guest interface. We discussed this IRL (nearer to then than now, so I hope I recall the outcome correctly) and decided that we

Bug#759018: [Xen-devel] Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-09-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 15:15 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Colin Watson writes (Re: Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use): ... There is also the question of whether the guest-side name should mention GRUB. One might argue that it shouldn't because all

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-09-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Colin Watson writes (Re: Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use): ... There is also the question of whether the guest-side name should mention GRUB. One might argue that it shouldn't because all that matters is that it uses the Multiboot protocol

Bug#759018: [Xen-devel] Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-09-04 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 04/09/14 15:25, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 15:15 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Colin Watson writes (Re: Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use): ... There is also the question of whether the guest-side name should mention GRUB. One

Bug#759018: [Xen-devel] Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-09-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 15:38 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: There is no real technical obstacle to prevent PV domains switching width after starting. All I know is that when this stuff was first invented lots of people thought quite hard about this and it is trickier than you might think. In

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-08-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 01:28:44AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: Is there a policy regarding using e.g. people/foo branches in the main grub.git or shall I go create myself a gitorious repo for WIP stuff? Given that it's basically me, I haven't really worried about policy, but I generally think

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-08-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 22:46 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 09:38:07PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I'm attaching a new version with a grub.cfg which is tested and seems to work. I've also taken the liberty of filing this into a wishlist bug (keeping entire quoted text

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 09:38:07PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I'm attaching a new version with a grub.cfg which is tested and seems to work. I've also taken the liberty of filing this into a wishlist bug (keeping entire quoted text below for the bug). This generally looks good to me, thanks!

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-08-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:42:37PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: The net result of the above is that the dom0 core.img built by the package will search /boot/grub/{i386,x86_64}-xen/core.elf (for the arch matching itself only) and then the version without the /boot prefix (for systems with

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-08-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 21:38 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: (Context for new CC: I'd like to provide a Debian package for dom0 which includes pvgrub2 binaries which can be referenced from your domain cfg files as the bootloader/kernel. The associated Debian wishlist bug is

Bug#759018: [PATCH RFC] Provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use

2014-08-23 Thread Ian Campbell
Source: grub2 Severity: wishlist Version: 2.02~beta2-11 Control: retitle -1 please provide prebuilt grub-xen binaries for host (dom0) use I'm attaching a new version with a grub.cfg which is tested and seems to work. I've also taken the liberty of filing this into a wishlist bug (keeping entire