On Tue, 2013-06-04 at 15:30 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 03.06.13 19:10, Colin Walters (walt...@verbum.org) wrote: > > > What's the implementation status of > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ ? > > > > For example, do any patches exist for grub or syslinux to read > > from /boot/loader (either at runtime or to generate a bootloader-native > > config file statically?) > > > > I'm aware gummiboot does (and its wiki page should probably crosslink > > with the above). But any others? > > The Grub patch I did (that Kay linked exists), but this isn't polished > and fully integrated into Fedora yet.
The question I had looking at this is: what determines the ordering? I guess it's intended to be the version field, but what if I have both Debian and Fedora installed, the default comes down to whichever has a newer kernel? Or should bootloaders only use the version field to sort within say a given machine-id, and retain their own custom config files for global ordering? That'd make the most sense to me. BTW, there is quite a lot of semantics that comes with the phrase "Debian-style version sorts". gummiboot appears to use "strverscmp" from glibc, but that doesn't do the "~" character for example. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
