From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:27:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: New gnu-efi package and new boot loader available Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Bill, > A few ELILO patches - one bugfix: > - elilo-makefile.patch > Tweaks the dependency rules in the Makefile so it will rebuild OK if > you change one file. Good. > > one behavior change: > - elilo-image.patch > Appends extra command-line parameters to any image parameters, instead > of overriding all of them. Overriding things like 'ro' or 'root=' > should still work, AFAIK. I did not check how LILO was behaving for comparison and you just gave me the answer. > > and two things catering to my personal preferences :) : > - elilo-query.patch > Makes the '-q' behavior the default, and adds a '-Q' to turn on querying. > - elilo-verbosity.patch > Wraps many messages with 'if (elilo_opt.verbose)'; also > turns off the timeout if an image was specified on the command line > Fine. I will integrate your patches into the new version of ELILO. I'll try to remember to protect Print() with the verbose test. Also the new ELILO will have a config file parsing that will be much cleaner and closer to the PC LILO. I adapted the code and remove some options which did not make sense. I just need to integrate it to ELILO now. The new ELILO will also have netbooting support. Also for now DO NOT USE THE initrd fix I submitted a few days back. We are moving allocations around between ELILO and the kernel and at this point we don't have a final answer. Probably the new kernel and ELILO will have the right stuff and changes will be transparent to users. I am also planning on separating ELILO from the rest of the gnu-efi package because they don't evolve at the same pace. Thanks for your contributions.