From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N9NYo-0003HW-BV for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:22 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9NYm-0003Gg-Ko for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:20 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9NYh-0003E7-1H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:19 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48337 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9NYg-0003Dv-O9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:14 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:34533 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 1N9NYg-0000O8-8W for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:14 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9NYd-0003jc-6R for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:41:12 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9NYY-0007us-KJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:41:06 +0100 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:41:06 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091114184106.GA30339@thorin> References: <20091111215002.GA17025@thorin> <1257976838.2864.73.camel@fz.local> <20091112104247.GB27359@thorin> <20091112121234.GA28300@thorin> <1258036529.4591.5.camel@fz.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1258036529.4591.5.camel@fz.local> 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: [PATCH] Unification of grub-mkrescue X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:41:20 -0000 On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 03:35:29PM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2009, 13:12 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:42:47AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > and support for floppy > > > > images. > > > > > > I didn't consider this critical, but I'm fine with adding it back if > > > someone finds a way to do it cleanly. > > > > Sorry, I confused this with something else. It's actually trivial; I > > will > > do this before commit. > > > > Thanks. Even in my opinion this isn't that critical. > Todays computers probable rarely have a floppy drive. > But if you have one and a spare floppy it's pretty useful. > Oh why do I _now_ get this idea only and not before. *sigh* > (See #grub why ;)) I made floppy support a separate command (grub-mkfloppy). Multi-platform support was currently impossible, and the code was too different for a unified file to be useful. -- 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."