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

[Felix Zielcke]

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.

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Felix Zielcke
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