Re: porting Grub to Xen

2009-06-18 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: > >> > Neither have I, but xen-devel says MiniOS is BSD, and should be > acceptable

Re: porting Grub to Xen

2009-06-16 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: >> Neither have I, but xen-devel says MiniOS is BSD, and should be acceptable for Grub. >>> >>> If it's under MIT or new BSD license it is. However

Re: porting Grub to Xen

2009-06-09 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: > >>> Neither have I, but xen-devel says MiniOS is BSD, and should be >>> acceptable for Grub. >> >> If it's under MIT or new BSD license it is. However no code with >> unclear licensing can be used in g

Re: porting Grub to Xen

2009-06-05 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: >> Neither have I, but xen-devel says MiniOS is BSD, and should be >> acceptable for Grub. > > If it's under MIT or new BSD license it is. However no code with > unclear licensing can be used in grub2 The mini-os code has been reviewed and gained an explic

Re: porting Grub to Xen

2009-06-03 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> > Neither have I, but xen-devel says MiniOS is BSD, and should be > acceptable for Grub. If it's under MIT or new BSD license it is. However no code with unclear licensing can be used in grub2 > >> Also it's much better in licensing and technical point of view to do >> it from scratch: it usually

Re: porting Grub to Xen

2009-05-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" writes: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Last week we had a very interesting chat on #grub, discussing various >> possibilities to run Grub in a Xen paravirtual domain.  You showed >> some interest in properly porting Grub to this archi

Re: porting Grub to Xen

2009-05-18 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner writes: > my misguided attempts to go through grub-emu and kexec. Just to clear up a possible miscommunication: the above kexec doesn't have too much to do with the Linux kexec mechanism. Rather, it's a separate implementation to fully replace some software running in a paravirtua

Re: porting Grub to Xen

2009-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Hello On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Hi, > > Last week we had a very interesting chat on #grub, discussing various > possibilities to run Grub in a Xen paravirtual domain.  You showed > some interest in properly porting Grub to this architecture instead of > my misguided