[Pkg-xen-devel] [Xen-devel] Notes from Xen BoF at Debconf15

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:24 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> Embedding in xen.git
> ====================
> 
> We are much better about providing ways to use system-supplied
> components these days (since 4.4) and Debian uses them.
> 
> Waldi noted that iPXE did not have such an option. Since that iPXE is
> only used by qemu-trad (for qemu-upstream the iPXE comes from the PCI
> ROM BAR) and Debian disabled qemu-trad it should be pretty quick to
> patch the build system to disable iPXE.

I went to do this, and found that ipxe is already only built if ROMBIOS is
enabled and ROMBIOS is disabled by default if qemu-trad is not enabled
(which it is not in the Debian packaging).

So I think this is already addressed! I don't think it is worth at this
point allowing to control ipxe separately from ROMBIOS (or at least such a
task is nowhere near the top of my todo list).

Ian.