Re: grub-mkconfig fails on every non i386-pc because of gfxterm/vbe

[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.

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