From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1TOupv-00012M-BV for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:28:51 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOupt-000121-5e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:28:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOuWQ-0007AI-8d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:09:17 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:60401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TOuWQ-00079A-1k for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:08:42 -0400 Received: by mail-wi0-f169.google.com with SMTP id hq4so2017003wib.0 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:08:41 -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=+JOlIvK5h73QzCJ0h6IkhxINwVc6ICukdlPGf+mYY0Q=; b=YAytbMicEjqZpfKC4uiwbv/yQvS5h36VSsFOEs+qdkosQOlKqbNsV2EyMG8nwrY8BK Qdt/WqeAK66KYah55lMa5butlmMhMY/i1OI8pUI4QF2w29AyYJnIA0BCUaOUdjPi2AZB SNP23liHzVJbs6zbmh5c4SVwxc12d0iaQX8eFFtgofbVNUh7U0FjdQKw8rut7gaDNLdu BmNhs0GTCfW/N13fqO/Yp4ObcXif3KVFV8lWLVbCctzlWinmgXh6feQN8cWW5EgVffcM Cs2S47qSiFBhZq62RFWCAlIsvMu/1MMbIjsjZxdbpgjMusux2jTADgtfnLy9r7MPBIs8 Jbow== Received: by 10.180.90.201 with SMTP id by9mr13072441wib.5.1350583721089; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (113-18.203-62.cust.bluewin.ch. [62.203.18.113]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fp6sm10607072wib.0.2012.10.18.11.08.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <508045A6.6040309@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:08:38 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.7) Gecko/20120922 Icedove/10.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: for ppc, include all modules in the core image References: <20121016062854.Horde.IYLUrZir309QfTbmkvaCoBA@imap.linux.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20121016062854.Horde.IYLUrZir309QfTbmkvaCoBA@imap.linux.ibm.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigDE22DB685B5C31ECCCF64D29" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.212.169 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: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:28:50 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigDE22DB685B5C31ECCCF64D29 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 16.10.2012 12:28, Paulo Flabiano Smorigo/Brazil/IBM wrote: > Hi all! >=20 > This patch implements the solution suggested by Gustavo Luiz Duarte > : >=20 > 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 an= d > end up > with a non-bootable system. >=20 > 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. >=20 > A proper solution would be to add to grub the ability of having built-i= n > *inactive* modules which would be loaded and initialized only on demand= > (i.e. > explicitly calling the insmod command). >=20 This is what memdisk does (i.a.). Why do you need anything else? >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigDE22DB685B5C31ECCCF64D29 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/ iF0EAREKAAYFAlCARaYACgkQNak7dOguQgkCAwD4h3R7jmfAfx6fjJw4wnYt1XoD ROKZiEoYEClnwjZBWAD/SFIWmOCX/7hrfPlWMrQBKgYmGAcyE8IRdqaJbSYwSUg= =TeFQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigDE22DB685B5C31ECCCF64D29--