[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#703586: Bug#703586: Xen fails to boot Linux dom0 under UEFI

[Ian Campbell]

On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 00:02 +0200, John Keates wrote:
> How do I assist with getting this in for Jessie?
> 
> I have this working in a fairly easy setup, it basically only requires
> the pep target to be on for debian’s Xen package,

What is "pep"?

> and a tiny bit of infrastructure to get xen.efi, vmlinuz, an initrd
> and a xen.cfg on to the ESP partition and letting the efibootmgr know
> about it.
> 
> I already have a oneliner to do this manually, but it isn’t that hard
> to automate, unless that tiny bit of infrastructure regarding the
> kernel bits and efi boot is creating a ripple touching many other
> packages, or if there are rules I am not aware of that make this
> really hard to make conform to those rules.

Probably the best approach would be to outline the step(s) here first
and then we discuss how to take it from there.

If you happen to already have a patch against the packaging itself then
you also might as well post it for reference even if you think it isn't
going to be the preferred solution.

Ian.