Re: [RFT,PATCH] Move embedding to appropriate partmap files

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:53:23PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >> We may want to embed more in the future. Actually I think it's not
> >> ad-hoc. Basically partition map defines a function which gives back
> >> the sectors available for embedding.
> >
> > Is embedding useful elsewhere?
> Yes. Consider a world of checksummed filesystems. In such world you
> can't change the contents of the file by just writing to its blocklist
> since it will break the checksum. Similar problems exist with RAIDs
> and LVMs. On some systems we can't put grub-env in a file. For these
> cases we can embed grub-env somewhere where we can write it with ease

Ok.  Feel free to use partmap/ then.  But please make sure #ifdefs only
enable those functions where they are going to be used.  That'd be
GRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS for now, if later code in other ports relies on them,
this can be changed.

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