Re: Idea: move grub-emu to a separate platform

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Bean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, the grub-emu is in every rmk files, but I don't see the
> difference between grub-emu in i386-pc, i386-coreboot or i386-efi. In
> fact, grub-emu runs inside the host os, it can't access firmware
> facility anyway. One quick fix to move grub-emu to i386.rmk, but we
> could also put it in a new platform altogether, something like
> i386-host.
> 
> The advantage of using a separate platform is that we could now use
> modules like the other platform, instead of embedding all source files
> in grub-emu. For example, whenever we add a new command, we need to
> modify the source list of grub-emu. But if we build i386-host like
> other platform, we only need to change common.rmk.
> 
> What's more, i386-host is not just a testing tool, it could be a real
> boot loader. kboot provides a minimum linux environment. We could use
> i386-host as a front end, and use kexec to launch additional boot
> files.
> 

I think I have from time to time proposed this too :) So I am all for it :)

But my point was more to cleanup makefiles in sensible way and then on
PC to allow more advanced automated (module) testing.