Re: grub_machine_fini

[Marco Gerards]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:

> I added a new function grub_machine_fini which is an arch-specific 
> function. This function is not called automatically, and used only for 
> grub-emu at the moment. I implemented this function for grub-emu and 
> PC.
>
> This function should be implemented for all architectures, and should be 
> called before GRUB exits. I think it is unnecessary to call this 
> function from reboot or halt, because the machine should be reset 
> completely in this case. So this should be called maybe only from boot.

This sounds useful.  On the PPC this should be used to free memory, I
think.  I don't think this is required for linux, so it is not
implemented yet.

> BTW, I disabled SIGINT in grub-emu, because I wanted to let grub-emu 
> catch C-c. When you want to quit grub-emu, you can use halt or reboot 
> (or C-\).

In that case, I assume, all memory should have been free'ed.  If
valgrind would work for grub-emu we could make sure that there are no
memory leaks.

Valgrind does not work because of this bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69511

If someone can get some memory tester to work with grub-emu, I will be
very happy.  I did not succeed in getting something to work yet.

Thanks,
Marco