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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RFC: Switch to xlilo now? Or post-3.0?

To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>, "Yang, Fred" <fred.yang@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RFC: Switch to xlilo now? Or post-3.0?
From: Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:05:47 +0200
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Le Mercredi 16 Novembre 2005 22:36, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) a 
écrit :
> > Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:
> > > Once the xen4elilo patch got applied, this no longer worked
> > > for me.  It may have been my pilot error.
> >
> > The key descision is when to move to new elilo.efi for Xen to
> > take advantage of xen.gz loading.  We should all move forward
> > together to get the feature
> > -Fred
>
> Perhaps.  But there is not a patch on the table for
> support of compressed images yet, and there is one
> waiting for xlilo.  Since 3.0 is imminent, let's decide
> on the xlilo patch that is waiting.  If a compressed image
> patch is available and tested prior to 3.0 freeze,
> we can consider that one too.
Here is the change.
I have only tested it with the old elilo on my RHEL 3.

Tristan.

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