Re: NetBSD support in pygrub

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>]

On 9/4/13 3:13 AM, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On 04.09.13 11:56, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > > I patched tools/pygrub and tools/libfsimage to support NetBSD and FFSv2,
> > > > see attachment for a git diff against xen.
> > > thank you for doing this great work.
> > Could changes to pygrub be fed upstream? Citrix XenServer uses it to
> > boot PV guests and having FFSv2 support there would be very useful
> > especially when doing a p2v.
> Sure. I would like to see feedback from people familiar with FFSv2
> before going to xen-devel.
>
> Christoph

I have not (yet) had a chance to look at this patch, and I am not as 
familiar with FFS as I'd like to be - but does anyone know if the FFSv1 
blocksize issues with pygrub have been addressed?  If we're feeding 
stuff upstream, this would be a good add.

The issue I'm referring to is that FFSv1 support in pygrub does not work 
with blocks over a certain size (8k?) - this is a flaw which I believe 
was inherited from grub.

Thanks,
+j