Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 28.08.15 at 15:42, <address@hidden> wrote:
> And I am not comfortable to say 'GRUB2+Xen cannot run on this hardware
> because your firmware vendor is not following the EFI spec in spirit.'

Well, not the least since I don't really agree with this (albeit I can
see where you're coming from) ...

> Now that said - do you have suggestions on how to make this work
> with GRUB in the picture?

... I don't think I'm the one to make suggestions on how to make
things work with grub in the picture when I continue to be of the
opinion that it shouldn't have been brought into the picture in the
first place.

But for the purely technical (patch) aspect: Anything (e.g.
macroization such that at least some sym_phys() uses can remain
untouched) allowing to limit the impact of said patch on the source
code (thus helping review and perhaps also long term
maintainability) would be a step towards talking me into
withdrawing my objection.

Jan