Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751624Ab3JUSrY (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:47:24 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:31904 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750847Ab3JUSrX (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:47:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 20:46:43 +0200 From: Daniel Kiper To: Jan Beulich Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , ian.campbell@citrix.com, ross.philipson@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, grub-devel@gnu.org, david.woodhouse@intel.com, richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com, xen-devel , boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, pjones@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, keir@xen.org Subject: Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen Message-ID: <20131021184643.GC3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> References: <20131021125756.GA3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> <52654A0602000078000FC611@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20131021142347.GB4211@phenom.dumpdata.com> <5265584102000078000FC771@nat28.tlf.novell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5265584102000078000FC771@nat28.tlf.novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1360 Lines: 33 On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 03:37:21PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> 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: [...] > >> > 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). Do you think about GRUB2 chainloader command? Daniel -- 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/