Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 18:26 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 06:19:11PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 18:07 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:05:37PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Robert Millan<r...@aybabtu.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:03:51AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' > > > > > Serbinenko wrote: > > > > >> Hello. CPUID command currently doesn't return a real grub_err_t and > > > > >> errors aren't set which doesn't fit in grub2's design. > > > > >> Addirionally "help cpuid" doesn't give really useful info. So for > > > > >> future expandability and less confusion I propose the attached patch > > > > >> partially based on original patch by Robert Millan > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I don't remember about this patch. I assume I wrote it in 2007 when > > > > > merging cpuid support for first time. > > > > Yes, it is. > > > > > Any idea why it wasn't it committed > > > > > back then? > > > > > > > > > None. Yoshinori K Okuji approved it here: > > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-05/msg00148.html > > > > > > I vaguely recall having disabled it because there was some issue with > > > scripting. Assuming it's working properly now, I have no objection with > > > it. > > > > > > > There was one. > > if [ 0=1 ] ; then echo t ; else echo f ; fi > > did print t but then also `error: false' > > This is now fixed. > > But the cpuid CLI worked differently, IIRC >
Ah in the thread you said that `if cpuid --long-mode; then ...; else ...; fi' doestn't work. But I just tested this with `if cpuid --long-mode; then echo true; else echo false; fi' in qemu and in 32bit I get false and in 64bit I get true. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
