Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752878Ab3JWRCA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:02:00 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f43.google.com ([74.125.83.43]:46891 "EHLO mail-ee0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751275Ab3JWRB7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:01:59 -0400 Message-ID: <52680103.50601@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:01:55 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131005 Icedove/17.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB CC: Jan Beulich , ian.campbell@citrix.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, keir@xen.org, david.woodhouse@intel.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, daniel.kiper@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, ross.philipson@citrix.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, richard.l.maliszewski@intel.com Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen References: <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> <1382455358.18283.31.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <20131022162632.GB19189@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1382517150.22417.21.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> <526803E902000078000A56D3@nat28.tlf.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <526803E902000078000A56D3@nat28.tlf.novell.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="----enig2HRPXMTJBVPKNGVMHOVJJ" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1443 Lines: 39 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2HRPXMTJBVPKNGVMHOVJJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > GrUB - which iiuc stays in memory > after transferring control - could export its file system support to it= s > 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 load directly from EFI, then IMO the best way is to have a PE executable with one of sections containing Xen and code which would load remaining files to memory and call common entry poi= nt. ------enig2HRPXMTJBVPKNGVMHOVJJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREKAAYFAlJoAQMACgkQNak7dOguQgktqAEApWB2vyLUSH9cNvT+1CJ5KN/X nEQnGvn8Yc/EJ0OxpUQA/3R/VLuWOngk+k5JwT0mD+Zp6gJ19mmH6ugUQshKngm6 =bis2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2HRPXMTJBVPKNGVMHOVJJ-- -- 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/