for ppc, include all modules in the core image

[Paulo Flabiano Smorigo/Brazil/IBM]

Hi all!

This patch implements the solution suggested by Gustavo Luiz Duarte
<address@hidden>:

Adding more modules to be built-in to the grub core ELF is easy. It is a
parameter passed by grub2-install to grub2-mkimage. However, there is  
a downside
on adding many modules to the core ELF: they are fully initialized in  
the grub's
first stage. It means you could hit a bug on a module you don't need  
and end up
with a non-bootable system.

Another downside is that you wouldn't get updates for these built-in  
modules, as
updating the grub2 package only updates the modules residing in /boot and not
the grub core ELF in the PReP partition.

A proper solution would be to add to grub the ability of having built-in
*inactive* modules which would be loaded and initialized only on demand (i.e.
explicitly calling the insmod command).

--
Paulo Flabiano Smorigo
Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Systems & Technology Group

ppc_include_modules.patch
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