Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenkophco...@gmail.com 10/23/13 7:02 PM
GrUB - which iiuc stays in memory
after transferring control - could export its file system support to its
descendants).
Xen shouldn't need to load any file after multiboot2 entry point. The
needed files would already
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:26 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
It can (at least in Linux). There are two entry points in the Linux kernel
and - one when it is launched from 'linuxefi' (See efi_stub_entry in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S), the other when it is launched
from an EFI shell
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:32:30AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:26 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
It can (at least in Linux). There are two entry points in the Linux kernel
and - one when it is launched from 'linuxefi' (See efi_stub_entry in
On 23.10.2013 15:13, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
- not make an ExitBootServices call - which it does right now in the Solaris
GRUB2 case and in the Fedora GRUB2 case.
What about having a special tag in multiboot2 file header RKEBSIHE:
request to keep EFI boot services and then bootloader
Ian Campbell ian.campb...@citrix.com 10/23/13 10:32 AM
The second (standard PE/COFF entry point) can be launched using the UEFI
chainloader call. AIUI this should work with xen.efi today. There are
some limitations however, firstly there is no way to pass additional
blobs and so the launched
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.w...@oracle.com 10/23/13 3:15 PM
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:32:30AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
Am I correct that xen.efi today can be loaded from grub today using the
chainload command? Whereupon it will parse the xen.cfg and load the dom0
kernel and load things
GrUB - which iiuc stays in memory
after transferring control - could export its file system support to its
descendants).
Xen shouldn't need to load any file after multiboot2 entry point. The
needed files would already be in memory with pointers to them passed.
If you insist on being able to
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 15:24 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:09 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
So it can be booted the same way as xen.efi. But my understanding is
that folks prefer a bootloader instead of loading the bzImage in an
NVRAM of a platform with pre-set
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:22:38PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 15:24 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 10:09 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
So it can be booted the same way as xen.efi. But my understanding is
that folks prefer a bootloader
