On 9/11/15, 7:32 AM, "grub-devel-bounces+amesh=juniper....@gnu.org on behalf of
Andrei Borzenkov" <grub-devel-bounces+amesh=juniper....@gnu.org on behalf of
arvidj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>10.09.2015 03:11, Arthur Mesh пишет:
>> Add `--enable-efi-watchdog' configure argument, which defaults to Off.
>> When enabled, efi watchdog will not be disabled.
>> Otherwise, efi watchdog will be disabled.
>>
>
>Please, no. This will result in incompatible binaries without any
>indication at run-time that allows to distinguish between them.
That's true, but I see no way around that w/o avoiding the initial call to
disable the watchdog in the efi init routine (and Vladimir is against that
idea).
>
>> Create a command line interface to enable/disable watchdog:
>> efi-watchdog (enable|disable) <timeout>
>
>Why is it not enough? You can always add it to your grub.cfg.
Well, it still leaves a window of time where the system operates w/o a watchdog.
It could be a problem if grub.cfg resides on a network file system, and is not
accessible, in which case the system would hang.
Spasibo
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