On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:20:51PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > El jue, 26-06-2008 a las 16:08 +0200, Robert Millan escribió: > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: > > > > > > Why not modify the build system to create _two_ instances of kernel.img, > > > one with and another without debugging? grub_mkimage would create the > > > normal, smaller core.img (without dprintf) for installing and embedding; > > > and store a core_dbg.img in the /boot/grub folder, > > > > This breaks the design and forces grub-mkimage to have: > > > > a) knowledge about GRUB paths > > > > b) requirement for root perms > > > > instead of just being an utility to generate images. I don't think it's > > a good idea. > > > Whoops, sorry, I meant that grub_mkimage would create two core.img > images, one per kernel.img version, and then grub_install would copy > them as usual. Then grub_setup would embed/set up the normal core.img > or the debug version based on a switch. What I propose is basically > modifying grub_mkimage to allow choosing the kernel.img file used and > then adding some lines to grub_install so that the two versions of > core.img are generated (but only the selected is embedded).
Ah; then it sounds fine, I guess. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
