Re: passing options to grub in xen,openfirmware and efi

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Olaf Hering <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Olaf Hering <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 23, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> >
>> >> What I do not like is the possibility to blindly set any internal
>> >> variable (consider overriding of $prefix). I'd prefer to set variables
>> >> in separate namespace, like grub.arg.XXX=YYY for XXX=YYY argument and
>> >> let user figure out what to do with them.
>> >
>> > You mean if booted with 'boot hd:,grub foo=bar' a 'grub.arg.foo=bar'
>> > should be available?
>>
>> yes.
>
> Current grub_parse_cmdline seems to set foo=bar instead.
>

I know. as I said, IIRC it was added to support specific requirement,
not as part of generic framework. Of course, now that it is there
nobody knows who depends on it.