Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

2008-06-15 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:48 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> Floppy support seems to be a constant source of trouble because it's the >> only disk type that can't be probed for reliably without causing unacceptable >> delays o

Re: [PATCH] Move ELF program header

2008-06-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 00:31 +0800, Bean wrote: > I test it with olpc and it works. I don't have ppc, would someone check it ? I could make CVS GRUB compile on PowerPC after removing floating point code, but I could not get the rescue image to boot in qemu, with or without the patch. I know that

Re: Some concern about the journal support

2008-06-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 01:32 +0800, Bean wrote: > This patch revert ext2 and reiserfs driver to pre journal state. The > new journal support would be in a separate module and provide a > transparent mapping layer for the fs driver. Sounds good to me. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin __

Re: [RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

2008-06-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:48 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Floppy support seems to be a constant source of trouble because it's the > only disk type that can't be probed for reliably without causing unacceptable > delays on some systems. > > How would you think about splitting it off biosdisk into

Re: new patch (boot from LVM / RAID)

2008-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:33:32PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Any comments? Ah, and usually it helps if I remember to attach things :-) -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) 2008-06-15 Robert Mill

new patch (boot from LVM / RAID)

2008-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:22:19PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > The memdisk part of this was basicaly a bugfix, so I checked it in. The rest > seems to duplicate stuff that grub-setup was already doing, and I think I'll > have to take a closer look (I'll send another mail about that later). I

Re: Latest LVM/RAID patch in CVS

2008-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 05:39:55PM +0200, Guntsche Michael wrote: > Hi, > > Looking at the latest change in CVS > > 2008-06-08 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c (main): If install drive is an LVM, > don't append the RAID prefix afterwards. > Reported by Cl

Re: [PATCH] boot from LVM / RAID

2008-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:09:46PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch makes it possible to boot directly from LVM or RAID. > > It is archieved by permitting that grub_prefix include a drive component as > part of its path. The kernel already knows how to extract root from there, > as lon

[RFC] split floppy support off biosdisk

2008-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
Floppy support seems to be a constant source of trouble because it's the only disk type that can't be probed for reliably without causing unacceptable delays on some systems. How would you think about splitting it off biosdisk into a separate module? This will probably add some code redundancy,

Re: Allow AFFS on mbr style partitions

2008-06-15 Thread Kalamatee
2008/6/15 Kalamatee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > 2008-03-08 Alain Greppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * fs/affs.c (grub_sfs_read_extent ): Allow AFFS to be used on MBR style > partitions. > that should read .. 2008-03-08 Alain Greppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * fs/affs.c (grub_affs_mount): Allow AFFS to

Allow AFFS on mbr style partitions

2008-06-15 Thread Kalamatee
Im resubmitting an individual patch by Alain Greppin which was originaly provided as part of a much larger patch (and declined for that reason). This patch is required for support of the AROS operating system (www.aros.org). 2008-03-08 Alain Greppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * fs/affs.c (grub_sfs_re

Re: [PATCH] Save/Load environment variable support

2008-06-15 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:44:56AM +0800, Bean wrote: >> >> +#define grub_strlen strlen >> >> +#define grub_strcpy strcpy >> >> +#define grub_strchr strchr >> >> +#define grub_memcmp memcmp >> >> +#define grub_memcpy m

Re: minor bug fix in SFS filesystem

2008-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:56:30AM +0100, Kalamatee wrote: > Im resubmitting an individual patch by Alain Greppin which was originaly > provided as part of a much larger patch (and declined for that reason). > > > 2008-03-08 Alain Greppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * fs/sfs.c (grub_sfs_read_extent

Re: [PATCH] Save/Load environment variable support

2008-06-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:44:56AM +0800, Bean wrote: > >> +#define grub_strlen strlen > >> +#define grub_strcpy strcpy > >> +#define grub_strchr strchr > >> +#define grub_memcmp memcmp > >> +#define grub_memcpy memcpy > > > > Uhm can we avoid this? The rest of non-util code just calls the gr

minor bug fix in SFS filesystem

2008-06-15 Thread Kalamatee
Im resubmitting an individual patch by Alain Greppin which was originaly provided as part of a much larger patch (and declined for that reason). 2008-03-08 Alain Greppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * fs/sfs.c (grub_sfs_read_extent ): Fix the count of nodes in extent-btree which is written as big endia