Re: powerpc-ieee1275 and grub-mkfont dependency

[Aaro Koskinen]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:45:58AM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 15.11.2016 01:13, Aaro Koskinen пишет:
> > 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.

OK, I think I understand. And that makes sense from maintainer point
of view. But as an user I don't want to build stuff I will never
need. Especially when it forces me to build/install/maintain 5-10
additional packages thanks to dependencies.

And you're right, nobody forces me to use grub - I just realized that
openfirmware can boot Linux directly. On an old G4 Mac there are size
limitations but I can probably craft a minimal kernel and chain load
with kexec... This way I wouldn't need to worry about how to build grub
in the future.

Thanks,

A.