On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:48 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> Floppy support seems to be a constant source of trouble because it's the >> only disk type that can't be probed for reliably without causing unacceptable >> delays on some systems. >> >> How would you think about splitting it off biosdisk into a separate module? >> >> This will probably add some code redundancy, but it also saves a small >> space in the typical core.img, which is a good trade-off IMHO. > > I'm afraid the savings are going to be tiny (if any) on the hard drive > side, whereas the code duplication will be significant. The floppy > module won't have CD-ROM support, and that's it.
Hi, The fd and hd device share many code, separating them is not a good idea. Perhaps what we need is a way to optionally disable the floppy device, for example, with a variable such as no_floppy. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
