Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 15:45 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: >>> can you send a message when GRUB2 CVS is considered no longer broken for >>> use with ext3? (so

Re: [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 31 May 2008 17:21:25 Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:09:50PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > I think the method is

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 15:45 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: >> can you send a message when GRUB2 CVS is considered no longer broken for >> use with ext3? (so I'll know when is a good time for me to install a >> newer version -- s

Re: [PATCH] Environment block support for grub2

2008-06-13 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 31 May 2008 17:21:25 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:09:50PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think the method is sound; what I'm complaining about (and it's not > > > something specific to your p

[RFC PATCH] remove all floating point operations

2008-06-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! This patch should remove all dependency of floating point support in GRUB. The patch makes sure that all rounding is done to the nearest integer.  include/grub/powerpc/libgcc.h will be cleaned up separately. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin diff --git a/commands/ls.c b/commands/ls.c index 77af4

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:49 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > true enough: grub's ext3 support is relatively unstable for now, so if I > use it I should be prepared to report problems and help debug them. > Partly I just get confused (although patches are frequently discussed on > the list) which pa

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Isaac Dupree
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 15:45 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: can you send a message when GRUB2 CVS is considered no longer broken for use with ext3? (so I'll know when is a good time for me to install a newer version -- since I'm not in a hurry -- or is it a better bet stability-

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 15:45 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > can you send a message when GRUB2 CVS is considered no longer broken for > use with ext3? (so I'll know when is a good time for me to install a > newer version -- since I'm not in a hurry -- or is it a better bet > stability-wise within th

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 01:05 +0800, Bean wrote: > Please see if my last patch works. Basically, it use read_hook as an > indicator. If read_hook is not null, which means we need to get a > block location, it use the fs address. If read_hook is null, which > means we don't care about the location, i

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Isaac Dupree
can you send a message when GRUB2 CVS is considered no longer broken for use with ext3? (so I'll know when is a good time for me to install a newer version -- since I'm not in a hurry -- or is it a better bet stability-wise within the next month, to go with a revision from May instead?) -Isaa

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:05 +0800, Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think we need to disable journal sometimes. Tools like grub-setup >> and grub-install is run in an active system, that means sectors could >> easily end up in th

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:05 +0800, Bean wrote: > Hi, > > I think we need to disable journal sometimes. Tools like grub-setup > and grub-install is run in an active system, that means sectors could > easily end up in the journal. However, journal is a temperately > buffer, space can be reused after

riscos grub2

2008-06-13 Thread Michael Grunditz
Hello I have tried to compile riscos grub2 on linux/x86. I tried with a arm-linux-gnu compiler and a arm-elf compiler. Grub builds but when I try to run it I only get "Welcome to grub", then b56c in function grub_env_find ..snip.. 21a54b0 in shared library function. The reason why I am doing thi

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think we need to disable journal sometimes. Tools like grub-setup >> and grub-install is run in an active system, that means sectors could >> easily end

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I think we need to disable journal sometimes. Tools like grub-setup > and grub-install is run in an active system, that means sectors could > easily end up in the journal. However, journal is a temperately > buffer, space ca

Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
Hi, I think we need to disable journal sometimes. Tools like grub-setup and grub-install is run in an active system, that means sectors could easily end up in the journal. However, journal is a temperately buffer, space can be reused after a while. In this case, we should bypass the journal and ac

Re: [PATCH] Move ELF program header

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This patch move the elf program header to the beginning, it should > solve the problem with coreboot. > > -- > Bean > Any comment ? -- Bean ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-de

[PATCH] Save/Load environment variable support

2008-06-13 Thread Bean
Hi, I separate the save/load environment variable function from my previous patch on environment block. It contains the command save_env/load_env/list_env and tool grub-editenv, but without the kernel patch. -- Bean diff --git a/commands/loadenv.c b/commands/loadenv.c new file mode 100755 index