From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KPjHN-0001Ed-1U for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:30:09 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPjHM-0001EY-6a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:30:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KPjHK-0001E3-KD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:30:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36302 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KPjHK-0001Dz-FG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:30:06 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:49721) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KPjGx-0002zp-Bq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:30:05 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KPj9p-0002cS-VJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:22:22 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KPjFv-0003JI-G9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:28:39 +0200 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:28:39 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20080803192839.GA12627@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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: RFC: conf/i386.rmk 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: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:30:08 -0000 Hi, I'm thinking that we have quite a bit of duplicate stuff in each of the 4 i386 ports (cpuid, pci, serial, etc) that could well live in a firmware-agnostic conf/i386.rmk file. This would simplify things and make them easier to maintain. What do you think? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."