From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: passing options to grub in xen,openfirmware and efi
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:10:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429151011.GA5931@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5540F299.4020304@gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 29, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> I'm aware of the problem and I fully agree with you. Automatic install
> doesn't use those and I think the reason for it was to specify root in
> early days of porting. I don't think it's used for anything nowadays.
For PV guests the use case is simple: provide a generic grub binary,
which recognizes optional knobs from the domU.cfg. This will be used to
select one of the configured devices as root.
I can imagine that this can be used for OF or EFI as well.
> Also unless there is a good usecase for having command line parsing, I'm
> all for killing existing ieee1275 parsing altogether and not introducing
> any parsing in the future.
So you want to dumb it down to the 80s PC level, even if some firmware
implementations can set knobs?!
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-23 8:03 passing options to grub in xen,openfirmware and efi Olaf Hering
2015-04-23 9:35 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-23 9:43 ` Olaf Hering
2015-04-23 9:54 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-23 11:25 ` Olaf Hering
2015-04-23 11:40 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-04-23 12:17 ` Olaf Hering
2015-04-29 15:02 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-29 15:10 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2015-04-29 15:21 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-29 15:35 ` Olaf Hering
2015-04-29 15:41 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-29 15:48 ` Olaf Hering
2015-04-29 16:22 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-29 16:28 ` Olaf Hering
2015-04-29 16:37 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-04-29 16:49 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-07 14:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-05-07 14:54 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-07 14:59 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-05-07 15:03 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-05-07 15:21 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-05-08 10:09 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-08 10:57 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-05-08 11:06 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-05-08 11:17 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-08 11:15 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-08 11:33 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-05-08 11:46 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-08 12:57 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-05-11 9:36 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-11 10:22 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2015-05-11 10:43 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-11 10:46 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-05-11 11:04 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-11 11:22 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2015-05-11 14:10 ` Olaf Hering
2015-05-08 10:44 ` Michael Chang
2015-04-23 17:05 ` Curt Brune
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