Re: Broken common.rmk change

[David Miller]

From: Robert Millan <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:05:16 +0100

> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:22:52PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Robert Millan <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:10:26 +0100
>> 
>> > grub-mkconfig generates a grub.cfg that relies on UUIDs instead
>> > of hardcoding, etc.
>> 
>> Well, for one thing I don't use initrd's for my Linux kernels,
>> therefore specifying root devices via UUIDs isn't going to work.
> 
> I was referring to use of UUIDs internally by GRUB (e.g. the search command
> instances grub-mkconfig generates).

Ok, but as noted in another thread this can make grub
very slow on ieee1275 systems as we are going to look
for the UUID on every ieee1275 device alias present and
there can be tons of those.