On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:11:23AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 09:17:58AM +0000, Ian Campbell a écrit : > > Do you have a reference to the conversation you had with the grub(1,2) > > maintainers? I don't see it in the pkg-grub-devel archives. > > Hi Ian, > > there was no conversation with the GRUB maintainers, however, they have seen > http://bugs.debian.org/672104, which was a whishlist bug on GRUB2 before > becoming an ITP. I take their silence as an evidence for their lack of > interest, which is totally justified.
Sorry I never responded to this. I think it is probably true that we have little interest in maintaining this as such, as part of our general lack of interest in much more than bare-bones ongoing maintenance for GRUB Legacy-related code (I have been doing some minimal amount of this but it's really not anyone's focus), so I'm glad that you're doing so and I support it being a separate package. For what it's worth, we do now have a PV-GRUB2, thanks to considerable work upstream; I recently uploaded a new version of grub2 to experimental that ships a grub-xen-bin binary package with the raw kernel and modules, and a skeletal grub-xen binary package which currently does nothing of interest but will hopefully soon install a loader in a conventional location within a domU that can be picked up by a dom0. grub-xen-bin can be made to work even now with some manual assembly, so I'm happy that we have at least a proof of concept. We're still fleshing out the details (see recent threads on grub-devel), and I need to write up a proper boot protocol for attention from xen-devel, but I hope we can get to the point where it can even be loaded by PV-GRUB1 with maybe just a simple shim menu.lst. If we try really hard we might even be able to have compatibility in the other direction as well. Obviously it will take some time to filter through everywhere, but I rather hope that eventually both PV-GRUB1 and pv-grub-menu will be able to die a natural death. In the meantime it certainly serves a useful purpose. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131219022958.ga19...@riva.ucam.org
