Re: Idea: move grub-emu to a separate platform

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:36:00PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, the grub-emu is in every rmk files, but I don't see the
> difference between grub-emu in i386-pc, i386-coreboot or i386-efi. In
> fact, grub-emu runs inside the host os, it can't access firmware
> facility anyway. One quick fix to move grub-emu to i386.rmk, but we
> could also put it in a new platform altogether, something like
> i386-host.
> 
> The advantage of using a separate platform is that we could now use
> modules like the other platform, instead of embedding all source files
> in grub-emu. For example, whenever we add a new command, we need to
> modify the source list of grub-emu. But if we build i386-host like
> other platform, we only need to change common.rmk.

Can't we just use common.rmk instead?  Adding a separate namespace for
util/ stuff looks like unnecessary complication.  We already have e.g.
grub-probe, grub-setup, etc which don't need this hack.

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