From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Cqran-0007uI-4S for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:32:13 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cqrae-0007rM-GM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:32:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CqraX-0007pv-AS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:31:58 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CqraX-0007pq-01 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:31:57 -0500 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cqr9P-0005M7-WA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:03:56 -0500 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D30AF8D3676 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:03:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 18 Jan 05 11:03:55 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:04:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <6E8C0543-6911-11D9-A482-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org> In-Reply-To: <6E8C0543-6911-11D9-A482-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501181204.10144.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: internal device representation X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:32:09 -0000 On Tuesday 18 January 2005 06:25, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Nobody has replied to my previous mail about device syntax, so I will > assume that means you all agree that I'm right about requiring > different device syntaxes for different architectures. ;) I don't agree. Sorry, I forgot to send a reply again. You assume that aliases are made by a firmware, but I actually meant that GRUB could make arbitrary aliases in itself, since GRUB has its own device drivers. For example: alias hd0 /path/to/a/device This does not have to call Open Firmware, because GRUB itself can map "hd0" to "/path/to/a/device" transparently. I agree that you can use different naming conventions from architecture to architecture, but I believe that the basic syntax should be the same. For instance, I accept that you use "sd0" for a SCSI disk, which is difficult on PC BIOS. Okuji