[ConsoleKit] extend ConsoleKit to support fast reboot on OpenSolaris x86

[Jedy Wang]

Although Solaris does not support boot to another OS skipping grub. But
in this way we can make boot to another Solaris BE skipping grub
workable. So it's feasible option to me.

And I do hope and we can provide OS specific options to reboot method,
like

  RebootIntoOperatingSystem(in string os_id, char *options, boolean
make_default);

Regards,

Jedy
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 11:46 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Thinking more about this, what we probably want is a method on the CK
> Manager object that will return an array of possible OSes that the
> user can reboot to
> 
>  GetAvailableOperatingSystems(out array<OperatingSystem>);
> 
> with something like
> 
>  struct OperatingSystem
>  {
>    string os_id;
>    string os_vendor;
>    string os_version;
>    string os_name;
>    boolean default;
>  };
> 
> where os_vendor ('fedora', 'ubuntu', 'kubuntu', 'suse', 'sun',
> 'microsoft'), os_version ('11', '6.06', 'Vista', '7', ...) and os_name
> ('Fedora 11', 'Ubunty Dapper', 'Microsoft XP', ...) being defined in
> the CK docs. And 'id' would be an opaque identifier (with few
> guarantees - might change after a reboot / reconfiguration) that is
> supposed to be used with
> 
>  RebootIntoOperatingSystem(in string os_id, boolean make_default);
> 
> or something.
> 
> That way, the GNOME shutdown/reboot dialog can be smart about things
> and perhaps offer a combo box only if more than one OS is available.
> And CK can be smart and pass the right flags to reboot(8) to use e.g.
> fastboot or not. And OS vendors can plug in various code to parse
> /etc/grub.conf or whatever. Or leave it empty if they don't care.
> 
>      David
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