[systemd-devel] implementation status of http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ ?

Kay Sievers kay at vrfy.org
Tue Jun 4 00:04:22 PDT 2013


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> What's the implementation status of
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/ ?
>
> For example, do any patches exist for grub or syslinux to read
> from /boot/loader (either at runtime or to generate a bootloader-native
> config file statically?)
>
> I'm aware gummiboot does (and its wiki page should probably crosslink
> with the above).  But any others?

It has broken path configurations in it, but a patch exists:
  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/grub2.git/tree/0362-blscfg-add-blscfg-module-to-parse-Boot-Loader-Specif.patch

Kay


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