On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 1:19 AM Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote:
> On 01.04.2021 21:43, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > On 01/04/2021 09:44, Roger Pau Monné 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. > >> > >> 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. > > > > Concatenating random things which may or may not be initrds is > > absolutely not something Xen should do. We don't have enough context to > > do it safely/sensibly. > > Well, I wasn't suggesting anywhere to concatenate random things. > Instead I was envisioning a command line option giving us the > context we need (e.g. "initrd=3+5"). > That's actually not a bad idea at all -- I may look into how feasible it would be to add on Xen side. GRUB side is trivial (but I'm not sure upstream folks would take it). Thanks, Roman.
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