Re: Is: Wrap-up Was: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-11-05 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:41:11PM +, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > > multiboot2 protocol requires some more changes. However, about 80% of code > > is ready. In this case Xen and modules are loaded by GRUB2 itself. It means > > that all images could be placed on any filesystem recognized

Re: Is: Wrap-up Was: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-11-05 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:41:11PM +, Stefano Stabellini wrote: multiboot2 protocol requires some more changes. However, about 80% of code is ready. In this case Xen and modules are loaded by GRUB2 itself. It means that all images could be placed on any filesystem recognized by GRUB2.

Re: Is: Wrap-up Was: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-11-04 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a short summary of our discussion. It looks > that we have two choices right now: > - chainloader, > - multiboot2 protocol. > > chainloader solution could be implemented quite easily. Some code should be > added for command line

Re: Is: Wrap-up Was: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-11-04 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Daniel Kiper wrote: Hi, Here is a short summary of our discussion. It looks that we have two choices right now: - chainloader, - multiboot2 protocol. chainloader solution could be implemented quite easily. Some code should be added for command line parsing.

Re: Is: Wrap-up Was: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-10-30 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 30.10.2013 12:19, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > multiboot2 protocol requires some more changes. However, about 80% of code > is ready. In this case Xen and modules are loaded by GRUB2 itself. It means > that all images could be placed on any filesystem recognized by GRUB2. Options > for Xen and

Is: Wrap-up Was: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-10-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi, Here is a short summary of our discussion. It looks that we have two choices right now: - chainloader, - multiboot2 protocol. chainloader solution could be implemented quite easily. Some code should be added for command line parsing. However, all arguments for Xen itself and modules must

Is: Wrap-up Was: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-10-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi, Here is a short summary of our discussion. It looks that we have two choices right now: - chainloader, - multiboot2 protocol. chainloader solution could be implemented quite easily. Some code should be added for command line parsing. However, all arguments for Xen itself and modules must

Re: Is: Wrap-up Was: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

2013-10-30 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 30.10.2013 12:19, Daniel Kiper wrote: Hi, multiboot2 protocol requires some more changes. However, about 80% of code is ready. In this case Xen and modules are loaded by GRUB2 itself. It means that all images could be placed on any filesystem recognized by GRUB2. Options for Xen and