[Gta04-owner] Debian Status

[Josua Mayer]

Am 18.04.2017 um 00:00 schrieb Andreas Kemnade:
> Hi Josua,
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:47:50 +0200
> Josua Mayer <josua.mayer97 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> Am 17.04.2017 um 21:34 schrieb Andreas Kemnade:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 16:13 +0200, Josua Mayer wrote: 
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> It is time for a new status update!
>>>> 1)
>>>> After some hacking around u-boot, we can now launch grub2 and make use
>>>> of the standard grub.cfg integration within debian for boot kernel
>>>> selection, and updates.
>>>>
>>> Hmm, what kind of user interface does grub2 provide under these
>>> circumstances?
>> text-based menu, including the edit feature for filenames and bootargs.
>> But it has fast timeout, that menu will be useless most of the time anyway.
>>
> well, the timeout can probably be increased.
>
> Select things via aux button?
> Virtual keyboard?
> How does it work?
Looks like I forgot to mention what seemed most obvious only to myself:
grub is only on the serial console. Because it is an EFI application, it
relies on whichever interfaces the firmware has implemented. As far as I
know U-Boot does not implement the display interface, and I am not if
anybody seriously considers doing so.

So for now grub menu is just a brick unless you are using the serial
console.
Distros can still decide to use extlinux.conf (interpreted by u-boot),
or their own boot-script.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
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