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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 19:14:26 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:37:56PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 22.11.2016 12:00, Daniel Kiper ??????????:
> > 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?
>
> OK, I misunderstood this, sorry. This is just about generating font, not
> about changing code.
>
> I will commit it.

Great! Thanks a lot!

Daniel



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