From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KQSpY-0006GH-7Y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:08:28 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQSpX-0006G1-2a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:08:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQSpW-0006Fl-Es for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:08:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55866 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQSpW-0006Fi-Ct for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:08:26 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:38365) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQSpV-0006Bl-QG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:08:26 -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 1KQSiB-0002ee-O4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:00:52 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KQSoN-0000Kl-54 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:07:15 +0200 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:07:15 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080805200715.GA1113@thorin> References: <20080803192839.GA12627@thorin> <20080803193027.GA12766@thorin> <1217825941.10989.26.camel@dv> <4897FA04.1060001@nic.fi> <1217954986.2722.4.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1217954986.2722.4.camel@dv> 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: 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: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:08:27 -0000 On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > > > I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every > > > time. One of the reasons is that the sparc64 support is very > > > out-of-date and doesn't use common.rmk at all. I cannot even test it > > > (well, I haven't tries hard). > > > > If sparc64 support is out of date and the maintainer is nowhere to be > > seen then I think you can put that support to graveyard until someone > > comes up to update it. Putting all common stuff to every platform to > > common.rmk is a good way and the only way (in my opinion) to go forward. > > OK, then there is an issue that it doesn't work if done naively. What is the problem exactly? -- 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."