Re: [PATCH v2 08/12] kern: Make grub_error() more verbose

[Daniel Kiper]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 02:37:43PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Le ven. 6 mars 2020 à 13:43, Daniel Kiper <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> > Re-adding address@hidden...
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> > wrote:
> > > Le ven. 6 mars 2020 à 12:42, Daniel Kiper <address@hidden> a écrit
> > :
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 03:22:31PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Please evaluate size increase for this. In the past passing file and
> > line
> > > > > number to grub_dprintf was a huge source of increased Kern and core
> > size
> > > >
> > > > I think it does not matter much if we stop pretending that we support
> > > > small MBR gaps right now [1]. Does it?
> > > >
> > > There are still a lot of installations that used older tools and never
> > > reformatted. We still care about them
> >
> > If we go that way then we have to care about them by the end of the
> > universe. And this means more and more issues like [1]. If somebody
> > wants to use new GRUB then he/she have to reinstall the machine or
> > something like that. IMO we should not care about users who do not want
> > upgrade their machines or whatnot. Or at least their choices cannot
> > impact GRUB development too much. And I think that this MBR constraint
> > is hindering the project too much at this point. So, as above...
> >
> > Sorry for being blunt...
> >
> It does not. Core doesn't need to have everything and the kitchen sink.
> It's small by design.

I am not saying that. I am saying that limitations of one ancient platform
should not make development of other platforms more difficult.

Daniel