Re: for ppc, include all modules in the core image

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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On 16.10.2012 12:28, Paulo Flabiano Smorigo/Brazil/IBM wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> This patch implements the solution suggested by Gustavo Luiz Duarte
> <gustavold@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> 
> Adding more modules to be built-in to the grub core ELF is easy. It is a
> parameter passed by grub2-install to grub2-mkimage. However, there is a
> downside
> on adding many modules to the core ELF: they are fully initialized in
> the grub's
> first stage. It means you could hit a bug on a module you don't need and
> end up
> with a non-bootable system.
> 
> Another downside is that you wouldn't get updates for these built-in
> modules, as
> updating the grub2 package only updates the modules residing in /boot
> and not
> the grub core ELF in the PReP partition.
> 
> A proper solution would be to add to grub the ability of having built-in
> *inactive* modules which would be loaded and initialized only on demand
> (i.e.
> explicitly calling the insmod command).
> 

This is what memdisk does (i.a.). Why do you need anything else?

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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