On 01.04.2021 10:44, Roger Pau Monné via Grub-devel wrote:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:31:07AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 01.04.2021 03:06, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
And the obvious next question: is my EVE usecase esoteric enough that
I should just go ahead and do a custom GRUB patch or is there a more
general interest in this?
Not sure if it ought to be a grub patch - the issue could as well
be dealt with in Xen, by concatenating modules to form a monolithic
initrd.
I would rather have it done in the loader than Xen, mostly because
it's a Linux boot specific format, and hence I don't think Xen should
have any knowledge about it.
Keep in mind that loader is loading Xen, using multiboot2 which is kind of
generic boot protocol, not Linux with its specific protocol. There may be
other multiboot2 kernels that depend on modules being _not_ concatenated,
such change would most likely break those.
Best regards,
--
Krystian Hebel
Firmware Engineer
https://3mdeb.com | @3mdeb_com
If it turns out to be impossible to implement on the loader side we
should consider doing it in Xen, but that's not my first option.
Thanks, Roger.
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