On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 12:30 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > I think we could implement partition addressing by a contained > > filename. > > As long as GRUB can read the filesystem at all, it should be > > able to > > read filenames. > > Otherwise the filesystem needs improvement > > The great thing is that we don't even need the ability to read > directories, so we can support PXE and other very limited filesystems. > > > Then we would specify grub_prefix as > > > > (FILE=/boot/grub/FSID)/boot/grub > > > > FSID could be a random string or is could be the filesystem > > UUID as read > > by the OS. grub-setup would create such file and hardcode the > > corresponding grub_prefix into core.img. > > Good idea. Do you want to implement it? > > The kernel side was easy. The patch is attached. Actually, I'm not > sure I got the disk ID right. I copied it from fs_uuid.c, but I need to > recheck it. > Update copyright year. I suggest putting new id in grub_disk_dev_id to the end. You also forgot to add it to grub-emu. Under qemu it worked well except that it wasn't autoloaded but I looked and seen that we have no module autoloading for device drivers, perhaps because some of them don't coexist well. Except issues mentioned patch looks fine and I think you can commit it even if we don't have userspace part yet > > We still need the userspace changes. > > -- > Regards, > Pavel Roskin > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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