Re: Move BSD and multiboot boot helper out of the kernel to their respective modules

[phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>]

Hello. On the IRC discussion it was said that removing call to 
grub_dl_unload_all_modules isn't a good thing. I would like to discuss 
this on the list
1) Call to this functon is present only on i386-pc
2) I would suggest an interface for preboot hooks if modules needs to do 
something before booting
3) If it's really needed to unload modules one could add a function 
grub_dl_unload_all_modules_except (grub_dl_t *mod)
Then the module before booting kernel would call this function and after 
it no external calls are allowed.
4) Not being able to add a new kernel type by module alone is IMHO a 
severe limitation to module infrastructure
Thanks
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
phcoder wrote:
> Hello, I was looking through the code and have seen that bsd and
> multiboot code uses helpers in the kernel. In this patch I propose to
> move these function to their respective modules
> Thanks
> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
>