[PATCH v5] templates: introduce GRUB_TOP_LEVEL_* vars

2022-10-24 Thread Denton Liu
A user may wish to use an image that is not sorted as the "latest" version as the top-level entry. For example, in Arch Linux, if a user has the LTS and regular kernels installed, `/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts` gets sorted as the "latest" compared to `/boot/vmlinuz-linux`, meaning the LTS kernel becomes

AW: Adding --set to videoinfo to retrieve current video resolution

2022-10-24 Thread Markus Scholz
Hi all, * I checked the links by Daniel (thanks for providing). * As I understand it Zhangs patches aim to add a high dpi scaling feature for the fonts * In contrast, the patch I submitted (albeit having a similar use-case) adds the possibility for grub "scripts" / config files to access & act upo

[PATCH v6 0/1] Add support for grub-emu to kexec Linux menu entries

2022-10-24 Thread Robbie Harwood
Address feedback from Daniel's third review (interdiff attached). Be well, --Robbie Raymund Will (1): Add support for grub-emu to kexec Linux menu entries docs/grub.texi | 30 -- grub-core/Makefile.am| 1 + grub-core/Makefile.core.def | 2 +- grub-core/kern/emu

[PATCH v6 1/1] Add support for grub-emu to kexec Linux menu entries

2022-10-24 Thread Robbie Harwood
From: Raymund Will The GRUB emulator is used as a debugging utility but it could also be used as a user-space bootloader if there is support to boot an operating system. The Linux kernel is already able to (re)boot another kernel via the kexec boot mechanism. So the grub-emu tool could rely on

Re: [PATCH v5] templates: introduce GRUB_TOP_LEVEL_* vars

2022-10-24 Thread Oskari Pirhonen
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 03:46:42 -0700, Denton Liu wrote: > A user may wish to use an image that is not sorted as the "latest" > version as the top-level entry. For example, in Arch Linux, if a user > has the LTS and regular kernels installed, `/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts` > gets sorted as the "latest"