From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1My8VV-0000Ez-11 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:29 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1My8VT-0000Cb-7a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1My8VO-0008Tx-B9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53328 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1My8VO-0008TS-0N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:22 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:58733 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1My8VM-0000Bh-1g for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:23:21 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1My8VI-0001oF-K1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:23:16 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1My8VH-0000yR-VE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:23:15 +0200 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:23:15 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20091014182315.GA3726@thorin> References: <20090504192725.GA19518@thorin> <20090504203911.GC6649@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:23:28 -0000 On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:45:31PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > 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 ... > > > > Hi, > > I've documented the usage of grub-dumpbios in wiki page: > > http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook > > The commands can be placed there as well. I personally doesn't mind, > but perhaps it would be easier for casual user to use a command > instead of typing the dd's directly. Hi, I just put the dd commands in that wiki page. I'm removing grub-dumpbios from svn as it's no longer necessary. -- 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."