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Bug #6159

Feature #6080: libbe should support installboot

Feature #6085: export libbe installboot function

libbe should proactively handle future architectures

Added by Robert Mustacchi about 5 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Toomas Soome
Category:
lib - userland libraries
Start date:
2015-08-23
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Bite-size
Tags:
Gerrit CR:

Description

Currently in libbe there's a bunch of logic which is generally of the form:

if (x86) {
       ...
} else {
       do sparc specific actions
}

This should be rephrased to something like:

if (x86) {
      ...
} else if (sparc) {
      ...
} else {
      <raise unknown architecture error>
}

History

#1

Updated by Toomas Soome about 5 years ago

  • Assignee set to Toomas Soome
#2

Updated by Toomas Soome about 5 years ago

  • Parent task set to #6085
  • Difficulty changed from Medium to Bite-size

reviewboard request https://www.illumos.org/rb/r/88/
to keep my task order under the control, I did build this update on top of #6085.

The actual architecture dependency is in single code branch, therefore the fix is really simple. Note, even as current be_has_grub() is also built around be_is_isa("i386") check, this check in current point of time is valid and has to be changed when i386 can have different loaders. The contexts where be_has_grub() is called in code are really about either grub menu file or grub (version) management, and therefore be_has_grub() calls seem to be valid - at least I haven't spotted any problems with be_has_grub() calls in loader project, where i386 does have both grub and loader available.

#3

Updated by Toomas Soome about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Pending RTI
#4

Updated by Electric Monk almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from Pending RTI to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

git commit 66f18efa654be2a490581b727f9b09dcd174aded

commit  66f18efa654be2a490581b727f9b09dcd174aded
Author: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Date:   2015-09-23T16:07:23.000Z

    6159 libbe should proactively handle future architectures
    Reviewed by: Josef Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
    Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
    Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>

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