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Re: powerpc-ieee1275 and grub-mkfont dependency


From: Daniel Kiper
Subject: Re: powerpc-ieee1275 and grub-mkfont dependency
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:00:17 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:44:16AM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:45:58AM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > 15.11.2016 01:13, Aaro Koskinen ??????????:
> > > 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.
>
> Why we need identical boot time code?

Ping?

Daniel



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