| ianw | hrw: i've responded on list, not really around right now. i hope we can collaborate positively on this. please understand that the project has been going for a long time, with lots of different people coming and going, and plugging into lots of different projects all with different requirements at different times. | 02:35 |
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| ianw | many parts are ugly, especially the bootloader; as people have variously used it for ironic pxe booting, raw hardware booting, iscsi booting, building .qcows and all sorts in between | 02:36 |
| ianw | i do think we have at least a pathway to a reasonable level of gpt/uefi support, and contributions will be welcome | 02:37 |
| clarkb | ya I think having the code basically already support generic partitioning helps, should be able to just plug right into that with label: gpt and switch on that in level1.py. Shouldnt require drastic changes to dib just adding missing feature | 02:39 |
| ianw | i'm not going to defend all that mbr stuff, but things are always much clearer in hindsight | 02:40 |
| clarkb | the nice thing is level1 partitining is largely decoupled from the actual partitioning from what I can see | 02:41 |
| clarkb | so swapping implementations in or out ahould be doable | 02:41 |
| ianw | right, and there's no need even to copy the context-manager type stuff it does, it can really just be light string manipulations of self.partitions and then underlying loop devices to get a useful command-line for parted/sfdisk/whatever | 02:44 |
| ianw | since it seems hrw and others have some good, real world, insight into what we want, that's why i think we'd be best to work backwards, from the calls we expect to see, then make sure dib is outputting them correctly | 02:45 |
| clarkb | I wonder if rax can boot uefi on xen | 02:51 |
| clarkb | hw_firmware_type is apparently a VM metadata value that can be set to uefi for libvirt | 02:52 |
| clarkb | odd that isnt an image metadata value (or maybe it is and I misread it) | 02:52 |
| ianw | i imagine qemu can, not sure if nova would be happy with it for our dsvm boot tests | 03:02 |
| clarkb | supposedly mitaka addedsupport for it in nova | 03:09 |
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