From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KQGXI-0005Y1-Iy for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:00:48 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQGXH-0005Xh-76 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:00:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQGXG-0005XM-H9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:00:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36035 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQGXG-0005XJ-AQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:00:46 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:6179) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQGXF-0007jQ-QY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:00:46 -0400 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13] helo=jenni1.inet.fi) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQGUs-0005Uf-Pp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:58:19 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (88.193.32.97) by jenni1.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 488F1534003F38DE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:58:12 +0300 Message-ID: <4897FA04.1060001@nic.fi> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:58:12 +0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vesa_J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20080803192839.GA12627@thorin> <20080803193027.GA12766@thorin> <1217825941.10989.26.camel@dv> In-Reply-To: <1217825941.10989.26.camel@dv> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk 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: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:00:47 -0000 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 21:30 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 09:28:39PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm thinking that we have quite a bit of duplicate stuff in each of the 4 >>> i386 ports (cpuid, pci, serial, etc) that could well live in a >>> firmware-agnostic conf/i386.rmk file. >>> >>> This would simplify things and make them easier to maintain. What do you >>> think? >> Btw, I think grub-emu could go there too. The only arch-specific thing in >> it AFAICS is cpuid.mod. > > I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every > time. One of the reasons is that the sparc64 support is very > out-of-date and doesn't use common.rmk at all. I cannot even test it > (well, I haven't tries hard). If sparc64 support is out of date and the maintainer is nowhere to be seen then I think you can put that support to graveyard until someone comes up to update it. Putting all common stuff to every platform to common.rmk is a good way and the only way (in my opinion) to go forward.