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Re: Want BSD hackers
From: |
Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
Re: Want BSD hackers |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:59:46 +0900 |
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At Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:06:29 +0100 (CET),
Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 1. Is it acceptable to depend on the user specifying the proper kernel
> type?
Yes, only when there is no way to detect which type automatically. In
this case, that's obligate, though I don't like that.
> 2. Is it acceptable to use --type=openbsd for the newer kernels, and
> keep --type=netbsd for older kernels?
Probably --type=old-openbsd or something would be better.
However, what I can't justify is if we can drop the support for older
OpenBSD. I guess that few people let GRUB to load older OpenBSD
directly (everyone chain-loads OpenBSD for now, doesn't it?), so it
might not be so important to keep the backward compatibility.
To everyone on this list: What do you think about this? Do you think
it is critical to keep older OpenBSD bootable with GRUB directly? If
no one wants such a feature (which is poor, anyway), I think it would
be better to just remove the support for older OpenBSD.
Thanks,
Okuji