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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Fix pygrub for IA64 support.

To: Takahashi Tomohiro <takatom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Fix pygrub for IA64 support.
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:05:05 -0600
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On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 16:48 +0900, Takahashi Tomohiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I made a patch that fixed pygrub for IA64 support.
> 
> This patch purposes to support pygrub on IA64.
> I just do fix pygrub and add LiloConf.py.
> (since IA64 uses elilo.conf)
> 
> The discussion point is elilo.conf path.
> I use "/efi/redhat/elilo.conf"
> But this is distributer specific(for example Redhat).
> Is any idea to fix this issue?

>          grubfile = None
>          for f in ("/boot/grub/menu.lst", "/boot/grub/grub.conf",
> -                  "/grub/menu.lst", "/grub/grub.conf"):
> +                  "/grub/menu.lst", "/grub/grub.conf",
> +                  "/efi/redhat/elilo.conf"): 

  This is a search path, so rather than favoring one distribution, at a
minimum, I think we need to include a reasonable sampling of
distributions.  Therefore, I'd add /efi/debian/elilo.conf
and /efi/SuSE/elilo.conf.  We should probably add RedFlag too, but I've
never tried it to know what their elilo path is.  I'd guess it's just
"/efi/redflag/elilo.conf".  Ubuntu also has an unofficial ia64 port, but
I believe they use the same path as Debian.  This obviously isn't the
optimal solution, but we should try for some fairness.

  Keir, all 3 of these patches are touching common code, so I'll leave
it to you to check these directly into xen-unstable.hg.  Getting pygrub
working on ia64 would be a really nice feature to have for 3.0.5, so
please consider these before the fork.  Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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