avoid firmware in grub-mkrescue (Re: moving ata initialisation to a command)

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:01:42PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> 
> > I'd like to move ata.mod initialisation away from its _init routine and into
> > a separate command.  This way it isn't a nuissance when it gets included in
> > monolithic builds (such as the ones made by grub-mkrescue) and disables biosdisk
> > completely.
> >
> > Does that sound fine?
> 
> No.  What if you put ata.mod in core.img?  You would expect your disks
> will be detected and that grub.cfg will be loaded immediately.  The
> user doesn't want to run a command to enable ata.mod and afterwards
> load the grub.cfg manually.
> 
> A better solution, IMO, would be changing grub-mkrescue so it doesn't
> load all modules.

I'd suggest standarising in something that can work later for keyboards and
such.  How about:

  grub-mkrescue --avoid-firmware=disk  ?

So that we can later add "disk,keyboard,screen" etc, and at the same time it'd
also work if grub-mkrescue was implemented for other platforms.

-- 
Robert Millan

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