From: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:46:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <ok...@enbug.org> > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:23:23 +0900 > >> On Saturday 11 April 2009 17:08:31 David Miller wrote: >>> This patch allows a platform to specify the image file output >>> format, it also adds the --strip-unneeded option to the objcopy >>> invocation as well. >> >> IIRC, --strip-unneeded was dangerous. > > I would like to have information about this :-) ... >>> I've left the i386-pc.mk portion of this patch out of the posting, >>> but rest assured I will check that part in once this gets an ACK :-) >> >> I don't like "IMG_FMT". How about "FORMAT"? If too ambiguous, >> "IMAGE_FORMAT". >> I prefer not to use uncommon abbrevs. > > That's fine with me, I'll update the patch once the strip issue > is resolved. In the name of progress I've commited these changes, with the recommended use of *_FORMAT instead of *_IMG_FMT. If this stripping of the resulting image is found to cause a real problem, we can revert that part of the change and work out a solution. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
