Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

2015-10-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:36:03AM -0700, PGNet Dev wrote: > On 10/30/2015 11:23 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > >I missed that you are talking about PE executable. However, > >as it was said you must create xen.cfg in advance and put it in the same > >directory with xen.efi. Please check xen/docs/misc/e

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

2015-10-30 Thread PGNet Dev
On 10/30/2015 11:23 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote: I missed that you are talking about PE executable. However, as it was said you must create xen.cfg in advance and put it in the same directory with xen.efi. Please check xen/docs/misc/efi.markdown for more details. TBH I'm not clear on whether the ex

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

2015-10-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:06:53AM -0700, PGNet Dev wrote: > On 10/30/2015 10:29 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > >>Will the aforementioned goals enable direct boot using systemd-boot > >>on EFI platforms ? Or is it possible even now? > > > >If it supports multiboot2 with my extensions then it should wor

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

2015-10-30 Thread PGNet Dev
On 10/30/2015 10:29 AM, Daniel Kiper wrote: Will the aforementioned goals enable direct boot using systemd-boot on EFI platforms ? Or is it possible even now? If it supports multiboot2 with my extensions then it should work. However, I do not think it is true because all is in development stat

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

2015-10-30 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 08:44:53AM -0700, PGNet Dev wrote: > Re: > > > The final goal is xen.efi binary file which could be loaded by EFI > > loader, multiboot (v1) protocol (only on legacy BIOS platforms) and > > multiboot2 protocol. This way we will have: > > - smaller X

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

2015-10-30 Thread PGNet Dev
Re: > The final goal is xen.efi binary file which could be loaded by EFI > loader, multiboot (v1) protocol (only on legacy BIOS platforms) and > multiboot2 protocol. This way we will have: > - smaller Xen code base, > - one code base for xen.gz and xen.

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

2015-07-21 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 20.07.15 at 16:28, wrote: > This series, in general, is not targeted to Xen 4.6. However, there are > some fixes at the beginning of it which are worth considering, I think. I looked at the first few, and didn't spot any fixes. If you meant just cleanup or other cosmetic adjustments, then

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/23] x86: multiboot2 protocol support

2015-07-20 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi, I am sending, long awaited, second version of multiboot2 protocol support for legacy BIOS and EFI platforms. It fixes all major issues discovered until now. There are still some minor problems which should be fixed in one way or another. I will address them in next releases. This series, in g