From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:30:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090207193032.GC32756@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220904693.13372.1.camel@localhost>
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:11:33PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote:
> El lun, 08-09-2008 a las 22:48 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió:
> > phcoder wrote:
> > > Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a
> > > patch for it.
> >
> > Doesn't this break our rescue mode ?
> How would it? As with other commands, there would be two versions of it,
> one for rescue and one for normal. Besides, what is the point in having
> the "boot" command in kernel -and thus always available- if you can't
> load a kernel to boot?
Vladimir, you're proposing an important change because it modifies the goals
of the rescue mode, but I see there's neither significant support for or
against your proposal.
I think it would help if you provide numbers on how much size do kernel and
boot.mod have before and after the proposed change (on i386-pc).
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-07 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 14:23 Sendkey patch phcoder
2008-09-02 14:54 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 15:58 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 16:12 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 16:19 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-02 19:01 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 19:29 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-02 16:30 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 18:39 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 20:10 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-02 22:22 ` phcoder
2008-09-02 23:38 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 0:08 ` phcoder
2008-09-03 0:54 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 9:10 ` phcoder
2008-09-03 11:19 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 10:37 ` bitbucket
2008-09-03 7:07 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-09-03 17:07 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-03 17:23 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-03 17:25 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-09-03 17:48 ` phcoder
2008-09-03 17:53 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-03 18:11 ` phcoder
2008-09-04 22:16 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-05 16:13 ` [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch) phcoder
2008-09-05 16:47 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-08 19:48 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-08 20:11 ` Javier Martín
2008-09-08 20:25 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-09-08 20:59 ` Javier Martín
2008-12-15 13:54 ` phcoder
2008-12-15 16:41 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-16 14:34 ` phcoder
2009-02-07 19:26 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-07 19:30 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-02-07 23:02 ` phcoder
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