From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GRUB_GFXMODE_LINUX user variable
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 23:01:47 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904012301.47634.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090401130557.GC27958@thorin>
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 22:05:57 Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:39:36PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 March 2009 11:31:29 Robert Millan wrote:
> > > This patch adds GRUB_GFXMODE_LINUX user variable to make it easy for
> > > users to set graphical mode before booting Linux.
> >
> > Is this really Linux-specific? It look somehow coincidental to me that
> > this is used only for Linux. If other operating systems, such as FreeBSD,
> > support that way of switching a video mode, I think you would want to
> > reuse the same variable.
>
> Agreed. Also, perhaps we should define an env variable like gfxmode, so
> that loaders can switch mode themselves and "terminal_output gfxterm"
> doesn't have to be used.
Not bad. ;)
> I like the terms "payload" and "loadee" because they don't imply what we're
> loading is a kernel (Linux) or a standalone OS (invaders/memtest86). How
> about using "gfxmode_payload=WIDTHxHEIGHT[xDEPTH]" ?
I am more used to Multiboot's terminology, so I prefer "OS Image".
Regards,
Okuji
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-29 2:31 [PATCH] GRUB_GFXMODE_LINUX user variable Robert Millan
2009-03-29 8:39 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-04-01 13:05 ` Robert Millan
2009-04-01 14:01 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
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