Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753329Ab3JUOh3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:37:29 -0400 Received: from nat28.tlf.novell.com ([130.57.49.28]:41099 "EHLO nat28.tlf.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752893Ab3JUOh2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:37:28 -0400 Message-Id: <5265584102000078000FC771@nat28.tlf.novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 12.0.2 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:37:21 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" Cc: , , , , , , "xen-devel" , , "Daniel Kiper" , , , Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen References: <20131021125756.GA3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> <52654A0602000078000FC611@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20131021142347.GB4211@phenom.dumpdata.com> In-Reply-To: <20131021142347.GB4211@phenom.dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1769 Lines: 46 >>> On 21.10.13 at 16:23, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 21.10.13 at 14:57, Daniel Kiper wrote: >> >> (Looking at the Cc list it's quite interesting that you copied a >> whole lot of people, but not me as the maintainer of the EFI >> bits in Xen.) > > I see this: > > From: Daniel Kiper > To: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, david.woodhouse@intel.com, > ian.campbell@citrix.com, jbeulich@suse.com, keir@xen.org, > > > You are on the 'To' instead of the 'CC'. That should make the email > arrive at your mailbox much quicker than through the mailing list? Indeed - I was clearly looking at the wrong place. I'm very sorry. >> > What do you think about that? >> > Any comments, suggestions, objections? >> >> The complications here make it pretty clear to me that the >> GrUB2-less solution (or, if GruB2 absolutely has to be involved, >> its chain loading capability) I have been advocating continues >> to be the better (and, as said before, conceptually correct) >> model. > > However my understanding is that the general distro approach is > to use GRUB2 and I think we want to follow the mainstream on this. > Which means using GRUB2 and making sense of the myrid of patches > that each distro has. As does ours - and we simply use the chain loading mechanism as I'm told (and as I suggested - I'm only occasionally involved in the secure boot stuff). Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/