[PROPOSAL] add a simple command syntax for menu entries

[sparkles-laurel]

stolen from grub can we have a menu entry syntax?
i don't know what you propose.

i propose a menuentry syntax like grub's. Submenus should also be a thing.

[SatoTsukasaCode]

don't know how to grub syntax but i like how limine works.

example from the arch wiki:

:Arch Linux
    PROTOCOL=linux
    KERNEL_PATH=boot:///vmlinuz-linux
    CMDLINE=root=UUID=root-uuid rw
    MODULE_PATH=boot:///initramfs-linux.img

so I think we can implument something like

popcorn:
    DISK=<disk UUID>
    KERNAL=<kernal path>

and etc.

maybe you have other ideas? i don't mine trying and replicating grub's tho if you feel more comfortable with it.

[sparkles-laurel]

we do have to replace GRUBs
well we can have a toml based syntax

[sparkles-laurel]

fucking move this to discussions

[sparkles-laurel]

hi @SatoTsukasaCode

[SatoTsukasaCode]

Toml sounds nice. probably better then what i had in mind.

[sparkles-laurel]

but toml is awful for sequencing commands

[sparkles-laurel]

so I propose something like

[popcorn]
title="popcorn"
[popcorn.sequence%]
initrd SD0::P1(LGBTFS)/boot/initramfs.img
popcorn SD0::P1(LGBTFS)/boot/popcorn.bin

[SatoTsukasaCode]

looks nice. if you feel like it would work better go for it

[sparkles-laurel]

idk, you lead this project, not me
but the command syntax is same
also complex chainloading should be a thing

[SatoTsukasaCode]

lets go with toml like syntax then

[SatoTsukasaCode]

hmmmmmm. how about yml? its similar to what i had in mind and pretty popular for config files

[sparkles-laurel]

may consider as well

[sparkles-laurel]

at least we dont have shit like this

[sparky@hell ~]:3 cat /etc/grub.d/44_uefi-firmware 
#! /bin/sh
set -e

# grub-mkconfig helper script.
# Copyright (C) 2020  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# GRUB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# GRUB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with GRUB.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

prefix="/usr"
exec_prefix="/usr"
datarootdir="/usr/share"

export TEXTDOMAIN=grub
export TEXTDOMAINDIR="${datarootdir}/locale"

. "$pkgdatadir/grub-mkconfig_lib"

LABEL="UEFI Firmware Settings"

gettext_printf "Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...\n" >&2

cat << EOF
if [ "\$grub_platform" = "efi" ]; then
	fwsetup --is-supported
	if [ "\$?" = 0 ]; then
		menuentry '$LABEL' \$menuentry_id_option 'uefi-firmware' {
			fwsetup
		}
	fi
fi

[SatoTsukasaCode]

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