Re: [PATCH v2 10/23] efi: build xen.gz with EFI code

[Daniel Kiper]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 06:40:22AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 26.08.15 at 14:33, <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Do you suggest that I should put this functionality (PE with multiboot
> > headers) on top of this patch series? Well, it is possible but this
> > series is big and I would like to avoid to make it bigger. I prefer to
> > get current patches into Xen tree and then work on new features (it
> > should not take so long because as I can see we almost agreed most
> > of stuff in that case). Or if at least half patches of current series
> > will be accepted (as I can see there is a chance to do that with v3)
> > then I can work on this functionality and put it on top of second not
> > applied part. Does it make sense?
>
> Yes. I'm not objecting to deferring that part. All I want is you to make

Great!

> sure not to submit any changes potentially conflicting with the end

OK.

> goal of having a single binary (which as I understand it can only be a
> PE one).

This is the end goal but I think that we should have transitional phase
when both formats (ELF and PE) are avaibale for users. Just in case.

Daniel