Re: [PATCH] framework for building modules externally

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:32:29PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > Attached patch makes it possible to build modules externally, by: > > - Installing headers in system include dir. > > - Exporting two ABI tags (a build-time macro and a run-time variable) > for run-time compariso

Re: GRUB 2 release?

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > (Note that being a maintainer needs to follow and advocate the philosophy of > GNU, as a representative of the GNU project. So, if you have any important > role in another project (e.g. Debian), I don't recommend being a mai

Re: grub2 netboot & memtest

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:15:20PM +0200, Joerg Hohwieler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use grub2 (current svn) netboot to boot memtest86+-2.01. > > Netboot already works and the b/w menu shows up. > > here's my grub.cfg: > > .. snip .. > set timeout=100 > set default=0 > > menuentry "memtest

Re: ATAPI Driver problems

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:23:25PM +0200, Clemens Helfmeier wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am trying to access the qemu cdrom drive (atapi) with grub2. Unfortunately, > qemu crashes with "triple faults". A bit of google revealed that this would > also > reboot a real machine, so qemu has reasons

Re: No scrolling for long input lines

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:40:38PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > grub_console_real_putchar there is quite good comment about what are > BIOS limitations. > > Choices are to modify this code here, or make better bios console terminal. Would vga_text.c solve the problem? VGA text is alwats gar

Re: too many commands, "help" output rolls of screen

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:10:22AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The top two lines of > grub> help > output will roll off the standard sized console. Please remove some > commands so there aren't so many that they roll off the screen. 'set pager=1' solves this. Btw, should we make it the defa

Re: [PATCH] Menu control for NPAGE and PPAGE

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 09:02:27PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Hi, > > On Oct/21/2008, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:39 +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Sep/24/2008, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > > > > > > On Sep/24/2008, Robert Mill

[PATCH] framework for building modules externally

2008-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Attached patch makes it possible to build modules externally, by: - Installing headers in system include dir. - Exporting two ABI tags (a build-time macro and a run-time variable) for run-time comparison. - Exporting a makefile with COMMON_*FLAGS variables. -- Robert Millan