On Wednesday 01 April 2009 22:05:57 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:39:36PM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 11:31:29 Robert Millan wrote: > > > This patch adds GRUB_GFXMODE_LINUX user variable to make it easy for > > > users to set graphical mode before booting Linux. > > > > Is this really Linux-specific? It look somehow coincidental to me that > > this is used only for Linux. If other operating systems, such as FreeBSD, > > support that way of switching a video mode, I think you would want to > > reuse the same variable. > > Agreed. Also, perhaps we should define an env variable like gfxmode, so > that loaders can switch mode themselves and "terminal_output gfxterm" > doesn't have to be used.
Not bad. ;) > I like the terms "payload" and "loadee" because they don't imply what we're > loading is a kernel (Linux) or a standalone OS (invaders/memtest86). How > about using "gfxmode_payload=WIDTHxHEIGHT[xDEPTH]" ? I am more used to Multiboot's terminology, so I prefer "OS Image". Regards, Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
