From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1M14wc-0006uw-U9 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 16:39:22 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M14wa-0006uE-Qp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 16:39:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M14wW-0006tg-8A for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 16:39:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57588 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M14wW-0006td-2p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 16:39:16 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:38331) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M14wV-0004z2-0Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 16:39:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M14j0-0000rD-C4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 22:25:18 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M14wR-0001l0-MS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 22:39:11 +0200 Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 22:39:11 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090504203911.GC6649@thorin> References: <20090504192725.GA19518@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub-dumpbios 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, 04 May 2009 20:39:21 -0000 On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:57:17AM +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess > there should be no harm adding two files in /boot/grub. Please don't. This is really corner case; I at least wouldn't want GRUB to install non-free blobs in /boot/grub automagically. (Those blobs were already in the hardware, so GRUB is not responsible for them, but still...) Is this use case documented somewhere (e.g. in the wiki)? Then users who need it can learn about the procedure from the same place. Also ... On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:28:52PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > As a side note: On many machines dumping the VGA option rom like that > does not produce good option rom images. Many option roms are > self-modifying and the above method only dumps the modified variants of > the ROMs that are normally not good for "POSTing" a graphics card > anymore. They're still good for other purposes though I guess. ... as Stefan points out (thanks Stefan) this may not be so straightforwarded. I don't think this kind of tweaking is suitable for a setup that "Joe user" will get by default. Btw, if the video rom can be obtained directly from memory, why doesn't GRUB read it in runtime instead? -- 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."