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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen branches
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen branches |
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Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:32:09 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30) |
Ian Jackson, le Thu 24 Nov 2011 16:54:27 +0000, a écrit :
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko writes ("[Xen-devel] Xen branches"):
> > Hello, all. I have push some work for paravirtualised GRUB2 to XEN
> > branch: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/branches/xen. Currently only
> > x86-64 (I'm much less interested in i386). What works:
> > - modules, normal mode, console, date, all of the all-platform commands
> > (not all are tested though)
> > What doesn't (not implemented):
> > -network
> > -disks
> > -loaders
> > -most of platform-specific commands (well as expected, xen is a separate
> > platforms so its platform-specific commands will be different if any)
> > What's kludgy:
> > -Finding and checking xen headers (/usr/include hardcoded, no checking,
> > also it's so annoying that xen mixes its kernels intended for standalone
> > environment with standard userspace headers)
> > -Stack. Right now I just allocate space in .bss.
> > -Heap. Likewise.
>
> This is exciting. We've been wanting a pv grub2 for some time. Do
> you think this work will be upstreamable into grub2 master ?
(Just for the record: Vladimir *is* upstream :) I just added the Cc to
Xen-devel to the grub-devel thread)
Samuel