Re: [PATCH] terminal split

2008-11-08 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 07 November 2008 20:07:07 Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:20:57PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > Also, a similar technique can be used to implement "getting an output as > > a string". For example: > > > > # Use the same password as the super user. > > set pass

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-08 Thread n0ano
I think this is pretty much what I'm in the middle of doing. I want to put the infrastructure in place so that we can handle an arbitrary PCI device but I will only put the actual code in to handle the PCI card that I have (the only one I can test). What I'm doing is creating a table that matches

Re: Windows,grub and grub2

2008-11-08 Thread Viswesh S
Hi, - Original Message > From: Viswesh S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: The development of GRUB 2 > Sent: Tuesday, 14 October, 2008 5:04:53 PM > Subject: Re: Windows,grub and grub2 > > Hi, > > > > - Original Message > > From: Bean > > To: The development of GRUB 2 > > Sent: M

[PATCH] split tar & cpio

2008-11-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, I thought it would be a good idea to split tar & cpio into separate modules to save some space and make things easier to figure out for the users. I managed to do this without duplicating code, with a bit of pre-processor magic. The saved size is not much, though (~400 bytes). But users lo

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: > Sounds good. But do we have support for "weak" symbol dependencies a la > dlym() ? I tried it once while traveling and you can dynamically check for function symbols and then start using them if they are loaded. Thou... I do not know how reference counting is then affected.

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 02:23:32PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > > > Why not use PCI ID to support this particular card? This way Donald doesn't > > have to support all cards, but the base is laid out so more cards can be > > added > > in the future. > > I have nothing against that. But i

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:52:21PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Bad news, I heard back from the two people who wrote the PCI serial >>> code for Linux (Russell King & Ted Tso) and they both agree that, >>> no matter how the ambiguity got int

Re: [PATCH] framework for building modules externally

2008-11-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:43:09PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > > > >How would the whole picture look like? Sounds like it'd mean less > >complexity > >in external modules at the expense of more complexity in the build system. > > Here a first proof-of-concept patch, uses hello.c as the exte

Re: [PATCH] framework for building modules externally

2008-11-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:51:23AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > Since it looks like the ABI part inspires more need for debate/discussion, > I propose merging the rest first. Support for ABI tracking is not essential > for building external modules (in Debian, it's barely necessary).

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:52:21PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bad news, I heard back from the two people who wrote the PCI serial > > code for Linux (Russell King & Ted Tso) and they both agree that, > > no matter how the ambiguity got into the Linux source files