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From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [ppc patch] add "enter" command
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:22:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873c1kri3q.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A838B122-065F-11D9-981C-000A95A0560C@penguinppc.org> (Hollis Blanchard's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:06:29 -0500")

Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:

> "reboot" and "halt" will also be implemented as commands that call
> Open Firmware, but since the user wouldn't see that I think it would
> be ok to name the "enter" command "openfirmware".
>
> On the other hand is such a thing possible under e.g. EFI firmware?
> Perhaps we should name it a more generic "firmware", just as "reboot"
> can be expected to work across architectures (if we were naming things
> OF-style we would call that "reset-all").

How about just suspend like I said?  That does not imply we are really
using firmware?  It could be possible GRUB is just a program on some
systems.  What I want to say is that we do not know the environments
that would be used and make it really generic.

Thanks,
Marco




  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-14  1:12 [ppc patch] add "enter" command Hollis Blanchard
2004-09-14  9:04 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-09-14 11:50   ` M. Gerards
2004-09-14 12:54     ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-09-14 15:06       ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-09-14 15:22         ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2004-09-14 17:15           ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-09-15  9:38             ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-09-15 14:21               ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-09-15 14:37                 ` Stefan Reinauer
2004-09-15 14:44                   ` Marco Gerards
2004-09-15 14:48                   ` Hollis Blanchard

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