On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:58:19AM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > On 1/6/19 11:21 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > > Given what you've described, I see no intrinsic reason we couldn't do > > the same thing with PVH, but I'm pretty sure that GRUB's Xen multiboot > > support doesn't yet support using the PVH entry point, so I don't think > > it will work with the code as it stands. It probably makes more sense > > to package what we have today (which I can do) and then work on the > > two-stage system as a further refinement. > > Ok great. Since I'm not using (and probably not going to use) the > multi-stage multiboot things, this is harder for me to help with.
With any luck I should be able to work that bit out myself, since I think stable's Xen has backported PVH support. > Now, while trying to start doing the same for PVH, I just started by > copying the build output of grub master branch into the source package, > #yolo, and then I have a grub-mkstandalone that can do -O i386-xen_pvh... > > https://salsa.debian.org/knorrie-guest/pvhgrub2/blob/master/Makefile > > So my question is... Will the new grub-mkstandalone that I drag in as > build dependency be able to do -O x86_64-xen as well as -O i386-xen_pvh? Yes, that should work. The tools are intentionally multi-target; in order to support a given target they just need to have its modules etc. available. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
