Re: [patch] PPC build fixes

[Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>]

Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org> writes:

> On Feb 20, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 20 February 2005 00:34, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>>> - grub_reboot and grub_halt in util/i386/pc/misc.c are not
>>>   architecture-specific, so have been moved to util/grub-emu.c.
>>
>> grub_halt is clearly arch-specific. Look at the definition grub_halt in
>> PC. It takes one argument, while the PPC version does not. I expect
>> that the same thing might happen in grub_reboot as well.
>
> Oops, I meant to convert that into using a more generic "flags"
> argument, and then "no_apm" becomes one bit in it. How would that be?

And how would the parser work?  What if more options have to be added
for other archs?  I do not have a strong objection against using
flags, I am just afraid it might be inadequate and that the current
code is easier to maintain.

Thanks,
Marco