Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753894Ab3JVPWo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:22:44 -0400 Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:56727 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752613Ab3JVPWn (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:22:43 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,548,1378857600"; d="scan'208";a="66072084" Message-ID: <1382455358.18283.31.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen From: Ian Campbell To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CC: , , , , Daniel Kiper , , , Jan Beulich , Peter Jones , , , Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:22:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1382451868.18283.21.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> References: <20131021125756.GA3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> <20131021135437.GD1283@fenchurch.internal.datastacks.com> <20131021185758.GD3626@debian70-amd64.local.net-space.pl> <1382433990.1657.66.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <5266620602000078000FCA48@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <1382435127.1657.70.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <526668A502000078000FCA7B@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20131022134252.GA27302@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382449985.18283.12.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <20131022140947.GA17829@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382451868.18283.21.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-4+b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DLP: MIA2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 22 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 parameters. Hence that mechanism > > is not used by the majority of users. > > My understanding is that they prefer a bootloader which can launch Linux > as a PE/COFF image, i.e. the linuxefi thing. What I'm trying to say here is that from the xen.efi or linux.efi point of view it can't tell if it was launched directly from the EFI shell or by some intermediate bootloader (i.e. by grub2's linuxefi command). Ian. -- 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/