Re: Warnings in kern/dl.c

[chaac@nic.fi]

Pavel Roskin [proski@gnu.org] kirjoitti: 
> The warnings could be suppressed somehow, but I don't think it's the  
> right thing to do.  64-bit grub-emu cannot load 32-bit modules (and  
> vice versa).  64-bit grub-emu could load 64-bit modules in principle,  
> although we don't compile them.   We could compile special grub-emu  
> modules, but I would not spend any serious effort on it.

Hi,

I think that using grub-emu might be a good idea for testing. I think there should be grub-emu architecture that could be compiled and in example there would be grub-emu specific disk layer, input layer and so on. So we could use grub-emu almost as same way we can do in real runtime environment. I know Marco will be using grub-emu like this on his GSoC project and I think it is a good thing too. But it needs some work of course.

We could do some special testing framework using this method. Eg. we could drive user input from special user input module that can be controlled from outside.

So please, do not at least remove support for using 64bit modules on 64bit systems :) (or otherwise make it harder to be supported later on)

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen