From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1SZRHs-0003fY-On for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:56 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SZRHm-0003es-8G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SZRHj-0007gx-Ek for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:49 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:43383) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SZRHj-0007fZ-5l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:47 -0400 Received: by wefh52 with SMTP id h52so3593310wef.0 for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 11:36:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=5/IZiC3A014qCjEkcyTivTkGmw3DYyiIDHpyP+kIhuk=; b=A03nB9vhHOTKAKQqeOl6u1udM5ns7bgsH7Vi+T8wbcGDi97Q1eWkJelEpmPI8s9r7T t280SMUq6or8uEoI+3P+BaGphpBH1EYGcxuYkq6UtGQYz3L9A3w1fynQkL4m3+qlDUrF gsmk1fhSWqNL/fEAiNHjEyIYjvxALJc/0n9Ju/bao1MxwqwroeHUwJxWXWQIzy8mTwYm Wvk3uOHXTcUOVYp94Coiw1G0J0M+L3CWGD21rLIDI3330S7nx0nggdhbxnd9AxbJlfbN CbPISqoiLpXCCaj+BnBAKI/nqXUYw39ymyaN2r5taVl7aR3TSz/urffb3uKGio1gxSIk rN+g== Received: by 10.216.195.19 with SMTP id o19mr8573996wen.207.1338316604469; Tue, 29 May 2012 11:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (73-234.197-178.cust.bluewin.ch. [178.197.234.73]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bn9sm29835619wib.5.2012.05.29.11.36.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 29 May 2012 11:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FC51738.3030308@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 20:36:40 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120510 Icedove/10.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip boot-device set for powerpc-ieee1275 References: <20120529142807.Horde.OEb8Spir309PxRU3g5GgjYA@imap.linux.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20120529142807.Horde.OEb8Spir309PxRU3g5GgjYA@imap.linux.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC884398F6ACDC8581D53AC47" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Tue, 29 May 2012 18:36:55 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC884398F6ACDC8581D53AC47 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 29.05.2012 20:28, Paulo Flabiano Smorigo wrote: > This patch is to skip the boot-device set for powerpc-ieee1275. Changin= g > it could be problematic in some cases. > The choice of the boot device can be done by the SMS menu of the firmwa= re. >=20 As I've already told when discussing this patch in fedora, this patch is both dirty and wrong. On most systems it would just make the result unbootable and doesn't provide any compensation for the missing step. The most affected systems would probably be PowerMacs since setting nvram is the only way currently to boot HD install without involving user going to OF prompt which on some systems defaults to a serial port which uses nonstandard connector. Why isn't completing but issuing the warning like we do on failure not acceptable solution on those machines? Why isn't it possible to modify nvram on those machines? What are the "problems" you're talking about? --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigC884398F6ACDC8581D53AC47 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk/FFzgACgkQNak7dOguQgmKgQEAta5i131FePl8+V4FFNw49Q63 ryAV2B6i2LJar7Zs0JUA/0AIflaHzWOEaqoJcXHirh5JeYuMTMdDLMvfEZzbIR5U =Yp6a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC884398F6ACDC8581D53AC47--