On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:53:23PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> We may want to embed more in the future. Actually I think it's not > >> ad-hoc. Basically partition map defines a function which gives back > >> the sectors available for embedding. > > > > Is embedding useful elsewhere? > Yes. Consider a world of checksummed filesystems. In such world you > can't change the contents of the file by just writing to its blocklist > since it will break the checksum. Similar problems exist with RAIDs > and LVMs. On some systems we can't put grub-env in a file. For these > cases we can embed grub-env somewhere where we can write it with ease
Ok. Feel free to use partmap/ then. But please make sure #ifdefs only enable those functions where they are going to be used. That'd be GRUB_MACHINE_PCBIOS for now, if later code in other ports relies on them, this can be changed. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
