Re: powerpc-ieee1275 and grub-mkfont dependency

[Andrei Borzenkov]

15.11.2016 01:13, Aaro Koskinen пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:53:23PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> I do not like it, sorry. If this platform supports framebuffer we
>> should build grub with framebuffer. If you do not (want to) use it -
>> fine, nobody forces you to do it. But on this path we get
>> proliferation of slightly different incompatible binaries in the wild.
> 
> What's then the point of having --disable-grub-mkfont (or any
> --disable/enable-* option)?
> 

Non of them change boot time code. They affect only user space tools.
User space varies greatly, some simply miss support for some features
(like having device-mapper libraries on native Windows build). But you
always get identical boot time code.