From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DaGA1-0007y1-Rv for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:52:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaG9n-0007n2-0c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:51:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaG9i-0007ky-1c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:51:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaG9h-0007gC-Eo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:51:53 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DaG5I-0005Aq-CT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:47:20 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B166D9CA2 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 18:33:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29562-01 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 18:33:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5AA9C8C for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 18:33:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C01C045 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 18:33:16 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20050509050526.GA18510@miracle> <20050513124307.GA13577@suse.de> <64f2ea4622d8f5d4cdeafdd5bae03cb7@penguinppc.org> <20050518195458.GA10996@suse.de> From: Marco Gerards Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:33:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20050518195458.GA10996@suse.de> (Olaf Hering's message of "Wed, 18 May 2005 21:54:58 +0200") Message-ID: <87k6lpq4vm.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: [ppc] [patch] set environment from commandline X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 16:52:04 -0000 Olaf Hering writes: > On Fri, May 13, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > >> Do you have any other "essential parts" in mind? > > Showing or hiding images depending on cpu capabilities. > Essentially a 'title[64bit] install' and 'title[32bit] install'. > There is really no need to show 64bit kernels on my ibook. > So if you guys could extend the syntax to provide very simple > conditionals, that would be real useful. Scripting support is planned. Variable support is there already, but default some variables should be set by GRUB, like the processor, perhaps the amount of memory, time and date, etc. The most important thing that needs to be done in adding scripting support. -- Marco