On 4/10/2011 9:22 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Would this be an FYI to submit to the grub developers? > > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Mark Wendt (Contractor)< > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4/9/2011 9:41 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >>> Ok, gang, my work is out there for all to see at >>> >>> >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?The_Isolcpus_Boot_Parameter_And_GRUB2 >>> There's a link to this page from the main EmcKnowledgeBase page under >>> the 'Misc Stuff' heading. Kudos, brickbats, big yawns, gleeful >>> nitpicking, all willingly accepted, but on the whole I'd just like to >>> see others improve on it. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kent >> Kent, >> >> Nicely done and nicely documented. I'm sure as the grub developers >> continue to "refine and improve" grub we'll have to make changes to the >> script and page, but you've gotten us off to a very good start. Thanks! >> >> Mark >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Xperia(TM) PLAY >> It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming >> smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. >> And it wants your games. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> Yes, Stuart, I agree.
Looking at the progression of releases of GRUB2, I see that the list of the user-configurable keys grows as the developers think of new o/s'es. For example, the release candidate grub1.99-rc1 (part of Ubuntu 11.xx) includes the keys GRUB_CMDLINE_NETBSD and GRUB_CMDLINE_NETBSD_DEFAULT in imitation of the keys for LINUX present in grub 1.98 (part of Ubuntu 10.04LTS). I'm going to point out the problem we have and suggest three possible solutions, the first is to create keys explicitly for linux-rtai kernels, the second is to create some small number, say 4, of "user defined" keys not tied to a specific o/s, the third is to come up with another way we can detect a local modification to a well-known kernel (like linux versus linux-rtai) and act on it. Of course, another solution is to create our own GRUB2 but then we'd have to dealt with the problems of Ubuntu updates and upgrades overwriting our work. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
