Xen devel - Jul 2013 - ucode=x and the patches for mkinitrd, dracut, etc.

Hey Jan,

I was wondering if there had been any patches posted that would take advantage
of the
''ucode=x'' argument that is implemented in the hypervisor?
Meaning patches that would
construct the right argument value and also append to the multiboot stanze the
correct
firmware?

Thanks.

>>> On 03.07.13 at 19:47, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if there had been any patches posted that would take 
> advantage of the
> ''ucode=x'' argument that is implemented in the hypervisor?
Meaning patches
> that would
> construct the right argument value and also append to the multiboot stanze 
> the correct
> firmware?
Patches against what component? The code responsible for the
grub.cfg entry generation varies from distro to distro afaik, so
I wouldn''t even know where such patches might need to go. And
I''m also unaware of anyone here having spent any thought on
integrating that functionality into our distros.

Jan

On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 09:53 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 03.07.13 at 19:47, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > I was wondering if there had been any patches posted that would take 
> > advantage of the
> > ''ucode=x'' argument that is implemented in the
hypervisor? Meaning patches
> > that would
> > construct the right argument value and also append to the multiboot
stanze
> > the correct
> > firmware?
> 
> Patches against what component? The code responsible for the
> grub.cfg entry generation varies from distro to distro afaik, so
> I wouldn''t even know where such patches might need to go.
AFAIK the update-grub stuff, for grub2 at least, is maintained in the
upstream tree. I know Debian use that (and in reasonably pristine form I
think) but I can''t say for other distros.
>  And
> I''m also unaware of anyone here having spent any thought on
> integrating that functionality into our distros.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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