This is a preparation for GRUB 2.12. With GRUB 2.12 EFI stub is the
recommended way to boot x86 (32-bit or 64-bit) kernels with UEFI, and
the old way is only kept as fallback.
In Linux 6.6, we can select DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION without FB, so FB is no
longer needed. And now FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE is not enforced (even if FB
is selected), so we need to select it manually.
Intel and AMD microcode support is now always enabled on x86[_64] and
CONFIG_MICROCODE is now hidden, thus remove amd-ucode and intel-ucode
kernel configuration info.
The other changes seem trivial.
neither firefox nor epiphany can download them, and they are not
well maintained, because rarely tested.
This is WIP because the "(HTTP)" part of "Download (HTTP)" will
need to be removed too.
But let's see what users think first...
1. Move kernel section before emergency boot disk section. The reason
is in the emergency boot disk section we already need to mount the
ESP, so we need VFAT and the related NLS configuration.
2. Add "codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1" mounting the ESP. I'm not
sure if grub-install will do things properly if a different NLS
setting is used. With some (broken IMO) kernel configuration a mount
command without explicit codepage and iocharset setting won't work at
all. And I don't like the idea to force the users to set
FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437 or FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1" in
kernel configuration.
3. Use "mount --mkdir" instead of a separate "mkdir -pv" command
(again).
4. Wrap long commands at 80 characters.
5. The ESP entry in fstab is optional. Personally I prefer it in fstab
because I hate the Windoge behavior (hiding the ESP from the user).
6. Update kernel and LFS version in example grub.cfg file (again).
Add the fstab entry before mounting the partition, so we can omit device
node path and mount option. Also use --mkdir option so we don't need
mkdir -pv.
By the way bump the kernel version and LFS version in example grub.cfg.
1. Don't throw unspecified entries too early. Doing so caused various
rendering glitches. And we can now also check if an entry is
selected but it's parent not.
2. "menu"s in Kconfig can also have dependencies...
Some pre-existing .toml data files are found problematic after the
change, fix them and regenerate all rendered -kernel.xml files.
This is stupid and it will cause meaningless diffs in version control
(like this commit does :( ).
Remove the kernel version from the generated XML files. Add
kernel.version file into git to track the kernel version.
I don't know these FS very well so I did not change things, except:
- "SCSI_LOW_LEVEL" should be "SCSI_LOWLEVEL" (without the "_" between
"LOW" and "LEVEL").
- RAID append mode is deprecated, so I removed it.
And I've fixed some issues in kernel-config.py as well.
clarify the rationale of the package and kernel support.
Note that we actually do not need this package if we only need to mount
FAT fs, not create or check or relabel it.
