From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LVsts-0004wN-PF for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:31:36 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVstq-0004w8-SD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:31:34 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVstp-0004vQ-D8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:31:33 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38042 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVstp-0004vN-7L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:31:33 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:49760) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVsto-0004Pu-Rx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:31:33 -0500 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 1LVsoZ-0005pB-NR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:26:11 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LVssq-0000Fr-DR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:30:32 +0100 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:30:32 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090207193032.GC32756@thorin> References: <1220386216.23879.55.camel@localhost> <48BDBC96.3010602@gmail.com> <1220398682.23879.70.camel@localhost> <48BEC43A.1000309@nic.fi> <48BECDDD.5040502@gmail.com> <48BECF2A.4080703@nic.fi> <1220566576.8537.5.camel@localhost> <48C15AAF.1090007@gmail.com> <48C58175.1010102@nic.fi> <1220904693.13372.1.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1220904693.13372.1.camel@localhost> 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-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch) 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: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:31:35 -0000 On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:11:33PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > El lun, 08-09-2008 a las 22:48 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: > > phcoder wrote: > > > Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a > > > patch for it. > > > > Doesn't this break our rescue mode ? > How would it? As with other commands, there would be two versions of it, > one for rescue and one for normal. Besides, what is the point in having > the "boot" command in kernel -and thus always available- if you can't > load a kernel to boot? Vladimir, you're proposing an important change because it modifies the goals of the rescue mode, but I see there's neither significant support for or against your proposal. I think it would help if you provide numbers on how much size do kernel and boot.mod have before and after the proposed change (on i386-pc). -- 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."