porting Grub to Xen

2009-05-18 Thread Ferenc Wagner
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 attempts to go through grub-emu and kexec. You asked for the interface d

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

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 >> so

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

2009-06-16 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 >>>> a