On 11/04/2010 04:04 PM, Manoel Rebelo Abranches wrote: > Fixed some issues reported by Vladimir: > > Initial alignment value 1 instead of 0. > Verify error by returning address being -1 since 0 may be valid in > memory allocated directly by the Open Firmware. > Use 'end' instead of (addr + len) to search for available memory. > change hardcoded value '1' to GRUB_MEMORY_AVAILABLE. > Go ahead. > On 10/19/2010 11:46 AM, Manoel Rebelo Abraches wrote: >> This is another version to the same fix. >> >> The first patch 01_mem.patch creates a new function to allocate memory >> using the "available" property in the "memory" node. >> The second patch 02_offset.patch correctly finds the linux entry point, >> also assumes that more segments can exist (made accordingly with sparc >> implementation) >> >> The patch was made passing -Bbp to diff as suggested by Vladimir. >> I tested with RHEL/SUSE images and some RHEL/SUSE kernel I had and >> worked correctly. Before the images failed to boot. >> Thank you for reviewing this. >> >> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 04:29 -0300, Manoel Rebelo Abraches wrote: >>> This Patch loads kernel LOAD segment at the address fixed by PhysAddr >>> with alignment Align at the ELF program header. Even if this address is >>> in use other address with the same alignment is found "linuxadr" (since >>> linux can relocate itself). The linux main function is then find in the >>> adress linuxaddr + entry + (PhysAddr- Entry), where Entry is the Entry >>> point address in the ELF header. (PhysAddr- Entry) gives the offset >>> where the linux entry point is located after linuxaddr. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Grub-devel mailing list >>> Grub-devel@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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