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Re: powerpc-ieee1275 and grub-mkfont dependency


From: Andrei Borzenkov
Subject: Re: powerpc-ieee1275 and grub-mkfont dependency
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:37:56 +0300
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22.11.2016 12:00, Daniel Kiper пишет:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:44:16AM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:45:58AM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>> 15.11.2016 01:13, Aaro Koskinen ??????????:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:53:23PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>>>> I do not like it, sorry. If this platform supports framebuffer we
>>>>> should build grub with framebuffer. If you do not (want to) use it -
>>>>> fine, nobody forces you to do it. But on this path we get
>>>>> proliferation of slightly different incompatible binaries in the wild.
>>>>
>>>> What's then the point of having --disable-grub-mkfont (or any
>>>> --disable/enable-* option)?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Non of them change boot time code. They affect only user space tools.
>>> User space varies greatly, some simply miss support for some features
>>> (like having device-mapper libraries on native Windows build). But you
>>> always get identical boot time code.
>>
>> Why we need identical boot time code?
> 
> Ping?
> 

OK, I misunderstood this, sorry. This is just about generating font, not
about changing code.

I will commit it.



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