Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen

[Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 03:37:21PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 21.10.13 at 16:23, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 21.10.13 at 14:57, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote:

[...]

> >> > What do you think about that?
> >> > Any comments, suggestions, objections?
> >>
> >> The complications here make it pretty clear to me that the
> >> GrUB2-less solution (or, if GruB2 absolutely has to be involved,
> >> its chain loading capability) I have been advocating continues
> >> to be the better (and, as said before, conceptually correct)
> >> model.
> >
> > However my understanding is that the general distro approach is
> > to use GRUB2 and I think we want to follow the mainstream on this.
> > Which means using GRUB2 and making sense of the myrid of patches
> > that each distro has.
>
> As does ours - and we simply use the chain loading mechanism as
> I'm told (and as I suggested - I'm only occasionally involved in the
> secure boot stuff).

Do you think about GRUB2 chainloader command?

Daniel