FS#44201 - [grub] Provide the xen architecture for grub as part of the grub package

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Kowis (BeepDog) - Sunday, 15 March 2015, 22:06 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 18:58 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:
the grub upstream has merged in support for pvgrub2 which can be used in xen to do far better chainloading of domUs than pvgrub or pygrub. It would make it substantially easier to boot domUs in archlinux.

https://blog.xenproject.org/2015/01/07/using-grub-2-as-a-bootloader-for-xen-pv-guests/

From the article:
"This meant that it was now possible to compile the upstream grub 2
code base to run as a pvgrub2 Xen PV guest, in much the same way as
the original pvgrub-legacy port of Grub legacy.

This has the same advantages as the pvgrub-legacy port originally
had, except using the more modern grub 2 code base. In addition
since this support was part of upstream grub there was no fork to
maintain and therefore no risk that the Xen PV support would languish.
"

merged email: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-11/msg00085.html

It'd be super handy to have this also as part of the grub package so I could use it on my dom0. Thanks!
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Closed by  freswa (frederik)
Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 18:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  This seems pretty stalled to me. If it's still an issue, please fill a re-open request. Thank you :)
Comment by David Kowis (BeepDog) - Sunday, 27 September 2015, 22:32 GMT
Any status on this? Thanks!
Comment by David Kowis (BeepDog) - Tuesday, 29 March 2016, 00:33 GMT
Would still like this to happen. I think all it needs is this:

--with-platform=xen


reference material: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/PvGrub2

Thanks!

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