From: "M. Gerards" <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>,
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
Subject: Re: [ppc patch] add "enter" command
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:50:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095162633.4146db09ac148@webmail.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409141104.09818.okuji@enbug.org>
Quoting "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:12, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > This command allows one to drop from the Grub prompt to the Open
> > Firmware prompt, then resume Grub again. This is very very useful to
> > inspect the state of the device tree, or run the "reset-all" command
> > (reboot).
>
> I feel that "enter" is too generic. Is there any better name?
> "openfirmware"?
Actually, we can make it something generic. I can imagine it is
possible to go back to the firmware with other kinds of firmware
as well. How about something unix like, "suspend" for example.
Other than that we could implement generic commands like "exit", "reboot",
"halt", "powerdown", for example.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-14 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-14 1:12 [ppc patch] add "enter" command Hollis Blanchard
2004-09-14 9:04 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-09-14 11:50 ` M. Gerards [this message]
2004-09-14 12:54 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-09-14 15:06 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-09-14 15:22 ` Marco Gerards
2004-09-14 17:15 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-09-15 9:38 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-09-15 14:21 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-09-15 14:37 ` Stefan Reinauer
2004-09-15 14:44 ` Marco Gerards
2004-09-15 14:48 ` Hollis Blanchard
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