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Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen
From: |
Peter Jones |
Subject: |
Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:54:38 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During work on multiboot2 protocol support for Xen it was discovered
> that memory map passed via relevant tag could not represent wide range
> of memory types available on EFI platforms. Additionally, GRUB2
> implementation calls ExitBootServices() on them just before jumping
> into loaded image. In this situation loaded system could not clearly
> identify reserved memory regions, EFI runtime services regions and others.
I think you'll find that many distros are shipping patches to grub2 to
add a "linuxefi" command that starts the kernel through its EFISTUB
code. You may want to look in to that.
--
Peter
Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen,
Peter Jones <=
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Daniel Kiper, 2013/10/21
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Jan Beulich, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Ian Campbell, 2013/10/22
- Re: EFI and multiboot2 devlopment work for Xen, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, 2013/10/22