Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 27.08.15 at 17:29, <address@hidden> wrote:
> You're right, there's no such requirement on memory use in the spec.
> But you're missing the point. Supporting grub2 on UEFI is already a
> hack (ignoring all intentions EFI had from its first days). And now
> you've found an environment where that hack needs another hack
> (in Xen) to actually work. That's too much hackery for my taste, the
> more that things on this system can (afaict) work quite okay (without
> grub2, or with using its chainloader mechanism).

It has been brought to my attention that the use of the work "hack"
above could have been understood as an offense. It certainly
wasn't meant so, and I'd like to apologize if it came over that way. I
simply used it not finding a better term while writing; perhaps I could
have used "misguided" and "workaround" respectively, but I'm not
sure that would have been received much better.

In any event - I didn't mean to insult you or anyone else.

Jan