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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	"George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	"Matt Fleming" <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
	jeffm@suse.com, "Michael Chang" <MChang@suse.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jim Fehlig" <jfehlig@suse.com>,
	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Daniel Kiper" <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
	"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.de>,
	"Vojtěch Pavlík" <vojtech@suse.cz>, "Gary Lin" <GLin@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
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	"Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	"Charles Arndol" <carnold@suse.com>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Julien Grall" <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"David Vrabel" <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] HVMLite / PVHv2 - using x86 EFI boot entry
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:24:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160415152417.GW1990@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57108121.1070307@suse.com>

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 07:50:25AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 14/04/16 21:44, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > No, I meant to ask, would it be possible to make booting HVMLite using EFI
> > be optional ? That way if you already support EFI that can be used on
> > your entires with some small modifications.
> 
> So you suggest to add two HVMlite modes regarding boot interface
> instead of one?

Not suggest, I'm evaluating what options we have available. That's very
different from suggesting. That's the point to this whole topic, pure and
simple evaluation of options.

> Given how long the EFI standard is available now and how buggy many
> vendor's implementations are I don't expect all computers sold in 5
> years will have a usable EFI. This will be true especially for
> consumer devices where no EFI is available today.

Thanks this really helps.

  Luis

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-15 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-06  2:40 Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-06  9:40 ` David Vrabel
2016-04-08 20:40   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-11  5:12     ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-12 21:02       ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-13  9:02         ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-04-13 10:15           ` Matt Fleming
2016-04-13 10:40             ` Matt Fleming
2016-04-13 11:12             ` [Xen-devel] " George Dunlap
2016-04-13 11:59             ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-04-15 22:53               ` Matt Fleming
2016-04-13 18:29       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]         ` <20160413185629.GA7501@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-04-13 20:40           ` [Xen-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]             ` <20160413210801.GC5962@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-04-13 22:23               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-14  1:01                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-14 18:40                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-14 19:56                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-14 20:56                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-15  2:02                         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-15 17:08                           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-15 10:06                         ` Julien Grall
2016-04-15 14:55                           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-15 18:44                             ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-04-06 11:07 ` George Dunlap
2016-04-06 15:02   ` Matt Fleming
     [not found]     ` <20160406160516.GC23684@char.us.oracle.com>
     [not found]       ` <20160406162347.GD23684@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-04-08 21:53         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-13 10:03     ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-04-13 10:21       ` Matt Fleming
2016-04-07 18:51   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-08 14:16     ` George Dunlap
2016-04-08 21:58       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-12 22:12         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-13 10:05           ` George Dunlap
2016-04-13 18:54             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-14  9:42               ` George Dunlap
2016-04-14 19:59                 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-13 10:25           ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-04-13 19:10             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-13  9:54         ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-04-13 18:50           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]             ` <20160413190226.GB7501@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-04-13 19:14               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]                 ` <20160413192223.GA19026@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-04-13 20:01                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
     [not found]                     ` <20160413201120.GA29797@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-04-13 20:35                       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-14 10:13                 ` George Dunlap
2016-04-13 15:44     ` George Dunlap
2016-04-13 19:52       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-14  9:53         ` George Dunlap
2016-04-14 19:44           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-14 20:38             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-14 21:12               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-15  2:14                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-15  5:50             ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-15 15:24               ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2016-04-15  9:59             ` George Dunlap
2016-04-15 15:30               ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-15 16:03                 ` George Dunlap
2016-04-15 17:17                   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-06 11:11 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-04-07 19:12   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-09 17:02   ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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