Re: Last call for pv-grub-menu.
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)
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