From: John Stanley <jpsinthemix@verizon.net>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Preboot support
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:40:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E59D8D.7050500@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E5998C.7030200@gmail.com>
The way it looks to me is that preboot_func is the function to be
executed a preboot time, whereas preboot_rest_func is a cleanup
function to be called to "restore" things to the pre-preboot_func state.
Something like this anyway.. its not yet real clear to me either.
phcoder wrote:
> Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>
>> - I don't understand how preboot_func and preboot_rest_func are
>> different. At least, not obvious. Can you elaborate on them?
> preboot_rest_func is a function which should undo any action taken by
> preboot_func. It's used if either loader aborts due to an error or
> returns (which is possible on some platforms)
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-15 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-10 23:48 [PATCH] Preboot support phcoder
2009-04-11 10:16 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-04-11 15:44 ` phcoder
2009-04-12 17:19 ` phcoder
2009-04-14 14:42 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2009-04-15 8:23 ` phcoder
2009-04-15 8:40 ` John Stanley [this message]
2009-04-26 14:38 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-04-27 16:49 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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