[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH 06/16] debian/control: Update utils Recommends

[Elliott Mitchell]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:19:00PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> On 1/15/21 7:38 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 06:24:44PM +0100, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> >> xen-domu-bootloader does not even exist as package. It does not make any
> >> sense to add it.
> > 
> > The idea is "xen-domu-bootloader" would be a virtual package potentially
> > provided by several packages.  Ideally "grub-xen-host" would start
> > providing it.  If/When PyGRUB is broken off of xen-utils-X.YY, then the
> > PyGRUB package could provide "xen-domu-bootloader".
> > 
> > More notably, "xen-domu-bootloader" could be provided by Xen builds of
> > EDK2/Tianocore or U-Boot.  I've been advised EDK2/Tianocore can be used
> > to successfully boot Windows on Xen/ARM.  EDK2/Tianocore may be more
> > attractive as a bootloader for FreeBSD on amd64 instead of PvGRUB.  I'm
> > presently trying to see whether U-Boot can get FreeBSD/ARM to boot (this
> > could be a driver issue for FreeBSD, but there are also hints FreeBSD
> > prefers device-trees on ARM).
> > 
> > There is also an ordering issue with the two options.  I suspect rather
> > more OSes can be loaded by EDK2/Tianocore than by PvGRUB, so I'm inclined
> > to pushing a generic virtual package over PvGRUB.
> 
> Sure, but let that happen first and then depend on it.

Wishlist bugs #978595 and #979548 asking for them to be packaged already
exist.  Partially the goal of the patch is proposing the virtual package
name "xen-domu-bootloader" and trying to find out whether others think
that is an appropriate name.


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