From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Ap6-0000nm-1Q for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:16:24 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Ap0-0000lc-Ph for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:16:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Aow-0000kT-VN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:16:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40956 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K8Aow-0000kE-FV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:16:14 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:39544) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K8Aow-000829-0t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:16:14 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K8Aml-0001x3-SN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:14:00 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K8AoJ-0004VX-Rn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:15:35 +0200 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:15:35 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080616091535.GA17206@thorin> References: <20080615174819.GA3506@thorin> <1213576320.12833.3.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk 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: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:16:20 -0000 On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:30:38PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > The fd and hd device share many code, separating them is not a good > idea. If code duplication is a problem, we could link the same code staticaly for each module. Size of biosdisk module is an issue, because it's always used in core.img, but size of floppy module isn't, because it's never needed for bootstrap. > Perhaps what we need is a way to optionally disable the floppy > device, for example, with a variable such as no_floppy. But that makes biosdisk bigger, not smaller :-( -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)