On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 17:00 +0200, John Keates wrote: > Well, there is one more thing: If kernel 3.17 manages to get in before > the kernel freeze, full-fledged Xen-EFI support will be baked into the > kernel by default! > 3.17 has been patched to provider hypercall support for Xen to get the > efivars facility (and pretty much anything and everything else EFI) working > for Dom0. > > Now, I’ve seen some messages on the mailing list where three people > actually want to freeze the kernel on 3.16, but since 3.17 is on RC4 > already and due to be > released really soon (like, in 4 to 5 weeks) with a bit of luck 3.17 > might be decided upon instead of 3.16. Besides Xen EFI support, it > brings a ton of really important updates as well that are beneficial > for everyone.
The kernel team has already decided on 3.16, I think it is unlikely that we will be switching to 3.17 at this point (but this isn't the correct forum to discuss). See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/07/msg00006.html > But having xen.efi in the package would be a ton of help already. Who > do I stalk to make that happen? I'm looking into it already because of this bug. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
