Re: no commit allowed under discussion

[Peter Cros]

Hi,
It will be good to get this resolved and on SVN grub2 so people
(ubuntuforums) can build for Apple efi with the latest 'hacks'
(fakebios, loadbios etc) found necessary in testing. Particlarly
Xserve which requires efi boot.


On 4/7/09, Bean <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 01:43:17 Bean wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Bean <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>> >> I've undone r2063, since we're still discussing how to / not to split
>>> >> modules. Bean, you must respect teamwork. If you are unable to follow
>>> >> such a fundamental rule, I will have to disable your permission.
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I thought the previous mail is about replacing grub_printf with
>>> > grub_dprint, I'm ok with that. This patch has been in mail list for
>>> > sometime, it is essential to get a working display in intel macs.
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How about this patch ? The split is necessary as it introduces new
>>> command loadbios and fakebios that uses the fake_bios_data function,
>>> and it would be ugly to put them all inside linux.c.
>>
>> Do you have any strong reason to make loadbios and fakebios separate? I
>> think
>> the overhead is negligible.
>
> Hi,
>
> loadbios and fakebios are sort of like hacks for the efi platform, I
> think they shouldn't be placed in the linux loader. Also, by moving
> the platform dependent code out, we can merge it with i386 generic
> loader loader/i386/linux.c.
>
> --
> Bean
>
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Cros (pxw)