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Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged
From: |
Ian Campbell |
Subject: |
Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:06:03 +0000 |
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 12:54 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> On 11.11.2013 11:10, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 21:52 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> > wrote:
> >> Hello, all. pvgrub2 has just became part of upstream grub as ports
> >> i386-xen and x86_64-xen.
> >
> > This is super cool, thanks!
> >
> You're welcome
> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git
> >>
> >> Documentation on its usage is missing for now but in short:
> >> ARCH=x86_64
> >> ./autogen.sh
> >> ./configure --target=$ARCH --with-platform=xen
> >
> > Does this enable Xen statically for the resulting binaries or is it a
> > dynamic/boot time selection between Xen and native?
> >
> The result binaries are xen only. Dynamic selection makes very little
> sense for bootloader.
Right this is what I expected.
Can it coexist alright with a native grub? e.g. will grub-makestandalone
pick the right inputs based on -O $arch-xen instead of -O $arch?
> > Also, does this require any code from Xen (libxc, minios etc) at build
> > time or is it completely standalone?
> >
> It needs xen headers (/ur/include/xen). On debian those are in libxen-devel
So no requirement for e.g. a Xen source tree. That should make things
much easier for the distros...
Thanks.
Ian.
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, (continued)
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/11/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Fabio Fantoni, 2013/11/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Andrey Borzenkov, 2013/11/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Fabio Fantoni, 2013/11/28
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2013/11/28
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Fabio Fantoni, 2013/11/28
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Fabio Fantoni, 2013/11/29
- Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, M A Young, 2013/11/27
Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Ian Campbell, 2013/11/11
Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Dario Faggioli, 2013/11/14
Re: [Xen-devel] pvgrub2 is merged, Ian Campbell, 2013/11/13
Re: pvgrub2 is merged, Colin Watson, 2013/11/29