On 12/19/2013 10:29 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:11:23AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Le Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 09:17:58AM +0000, Ian Campbell a écrit : >>> Do you have a reference to the conversation you had with the grub(1,2) >>> maintainers? I don't see it in the pkg-grub-devel archives. >> >> Hi Ian, >> >> there was no conversation with the GRUB maintainers, however, they have seen >> http://bugs.debian.org/672104, which was a whishlist bug on GRUB2 before >> becoming an ITP. I take their silence as an evidence for their lack of >> interest, which is totally justified. > > Sorry I never responded to this. I think it is probably true that we > have little interest in maintaining this as such, as part of our general > lack of interest in much more than bare-bones ongoing maintenance for > GRUB Legacy-related code (I have been doing some minimal amount of this > but it's really not anyone's focus), so I'm glad that you're doing so > and I support it being a separate package. > > > For what it's worth, we do now have a PV-GRUB2, thanks to considerable > work upstream; I recently uploaded a new version of grub2 to > experimental that ships a grub-xen-bin binary package with the raw > kernel and modules, and a skeletal grub-xen binary package which > currently does nothing of interest but will hopefully soon install a > loader in a conventional location within a domU that can be picked up by > a dom0. grub-xen-bin can be made to work even now with some manual > assembly, so I'm happy that we have at least a proof of concept. > > We're still fleshing out the details (see recent threads on grub-devel), > and I need to write up a proper boot protocol for attention from > xen-devel, but I hope we can get to the point where it can even be > loaded by PV-GRUB1 with maybe just a simple shim menu.lst. If we try > really hard we might even be able to have compatibility in the other > direction as well. > > Obviously it will take some time to filter through everywhere, but I > rather hope that eventually both PV-GRUB1 and pv-grub-menu will be able > to die a natural death. In the meantime it certainly serves a useful > purpose.
Thanks a lot for working on this. I'm looking forward for the time where all this will be finished and fully useable. Please do self-promote your work and announce it to this list when you consider it's ready. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52b2aefd.1090...@debian.org
