From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH OSSTEST v2 19/19] Debian: Arrange to be able to chainload a xen.efi from grub2
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:11:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21891.2541.794988.29301@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434644710-28881-19-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST v2 19/19] Debian: Arrange to be able to chainload a xen.efi from grub2"):
> Xen cannot (currently) be booted directly via the usual multiboot
> path on EFI systems of any arch. Instead it is necessary to either
> launch xen.efi direct from the UEFI shell or to chainload it from
> grub. In both cases the Xen command line as well as what would
> normally be the multiboot modules (kernel+command line, XSM policy,
> initrd) must be configured in a Xen configuration file.
>
> By patching overlay/etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen that if a suitable xen.efi
> is found in the EFI System Partition (as arrange by a previous patch)
> a suitable entry is created in grub.cfg as well.
Urgh. How horrible. I don't object to your patch, except that
there's some linewrap or reformatting needed.
> + if ($need_uefi_chainload) {
> + die 'chainload entry not found' unless $chainentry;
> +
> + # Propagate relevant fields of the main entry over to the
> + # chain entry for use of subsequent code.
> + foreach (qw(KernVer KernDom0 KernOnly KernOpts Initrd Xenp\
olicy)) {
Wrapping and indentation problems here ?
> + target_cmd_root($ho,
> + <<END.($entry->{Initrd}?<<END:"").($entry->{Xenpolicy}?<<END:""));
> + set -ex
> + cp -vL /boot/$entry->{KernDom0} /boot/efi/EFI/osstest/vml\
inuz #/
It would IMO be better to align the shell at the lhs if there isn't
another way to avoid these overlong lines.
Thanks,
Ian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-18 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-18 16:24 [PATCH OSSTEST v2 00/19] Initial support for ARM64 Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:24 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 01/19] Introduce mg-pxe-loader-update Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:42 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 10:44 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:24 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 02/19] Debian: Preseed a EFI system partition during host install Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:44 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:24 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 03/19] ts-host-install: Split initrd out of @installcmdline Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:53 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:24 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 04/19] ts-host-install: split the "di" from the "host" command line Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:53 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:24 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 05/19] Refactor pxelinux configuration Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:49 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 9:53 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-19 10:45 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 10:55 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:24 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 06/19] ts-host-install: Support UEFI PXE boot using grub.efi Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:51 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:24 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 07/19] Enable chain loading to local disk for UEFI PXE systems Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:52 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 9:57 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:24 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 08/19] Add arm64 build and test jobs Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:54 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 09/19] ts-kernel-build: Additional kernel options for Mustang Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:55 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 10:04 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 10/19] ts-host-install: Set dtbs in the non-special kernel case too Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:56 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 10:07 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-19 10:46 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 11/19] Debian: Fixup UEFI boot order during install Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:57 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 10:22 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-19 11:02 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 11:15 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 12/19] ts-kernel-build: Support --reuse to keep same build tree Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:58 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 9:40 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 13/19] standalone: Prefer ./standalone.config to $HOME/.xen-osstest/config Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 17:59 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 10:22 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-19 10:24 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-19 11:04 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 11:08 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 14/19] Debian: grub2: Log full line range of menuentry and submenu entries Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 18:00 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 15/19] Debian: grub2: Use GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_XEN_REPLACE(_DEFAULT) Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 18:02 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 16/19] Collect xen.efi into xendist and install in appropriate place Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 18:04 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 17/19] Debian: Ignore xen-syms entries in grub.cfg Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 18:04 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-19 9:44 ` Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 18/19] Debian: Collect kernel command line from grub.cfg Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 18:05 ` Ian Jackson
2015-06-18 16:25 ` [PATCH OSSTEST v2 19/19] Debian: Arrange to be able to chainload a xen.efi from grub2 Ian Campbell
2015-06-18 18:11 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
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