Am Samstag, den 12.09.2009, 14:58 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:54:19PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 13:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > > Pavel, if you could confirm that you're ok with checking for module > > > existance, maybe Felix' patch can be made simpler. > > > > Generally, I would prefer not to rely on the existence of modules, as > > it's a poor substitute for the knowledge whether they are actually > > functional on the target hardware. > > I suppose we could put that knowledge into *.rmk files (i.e. stop building > gfxterm on platforms that don't have video backends). But it's a bit > annoying since it forces us to maintain duplicate declarations for it. >
And we'd need to define a fixed video backend for every target, else we still have to check if there's a suitable one. I don't see why that would be better then the current method. And I doubt we can check inside the OS if the avaible video backends actually work on the machine of the user. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
