Re: [PATCH] New frame buffer detection algorithm and loadrom command for efi platform

2009-03-25 Thread Bean
Hi, This is another update, it contains the following changes with regards to the previous one: 1, Move loadbios command to commands/efi directory. 2, loadbios support an optional second parameter which is the int10 vector dump file. 3, The linux command enables frame buffer by default, so you do

Re: grub2 vs. kexec

2009-03-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
Quoting Michael Reichenbach : With great interrest I was reading http://grub.enbug.org/GSoC/Ideas2009 the new ideas sound really innovative. I see two possible approaches to implement such features. Either - doing it the GRUB2 way or - loading a linux kernel (which supports already all the stuf

[PATCH]: grub: Fix sparc64 setjmp implementation, update grub_setjmp() attributes.

2009-03-25 Thread David Miller
The FSF has received my copyright assignment paperwork so I'm starting to feed fresh copies of my sparc64 changes. Here, we fix the setjmp assembler implementation for sparc64 and also we fix all of the grub_setjmp declarations to have the proper "returns_twice" attribute. For normal "setjmp" GC

grub2 vs. kexec

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Reichenbach
With great interrest I was reading http://grub.enbug.org/GSoC/Ideas2009 the new ideas sound really innovative. I see two possible approaches to implement such features. Either - doing it the GRUB2 way or - loading a linux kernel (which supports already all the stuff), loading the needed drivers (b

Re: Overlaying default grub.cfg makes qemu "fat:" partition inaccessible

2009-03-25 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:39 +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > Taking a look at grub-mkrescue, it seems that it creates a > boot/grub/grub.cfg that executes an insmod for each specified module. > It then copies the overlay files overwriting the just-created > grub.cfg. > > The user's grub.cfg should

Re: [PATCH] New frame buffer detection algorithm and loadrom command for efi platform

2009-03-25 Thread Bean
Hi, The new patch have some adjustment: 1, The loadbios code is moved out of linux.c, it's in a standalone module loadbios.mod, you could use: fakebios or loadbios /VBIOS.bin Both will fake acpi and dmi information, loadbios loads video bios rom from external file as well. 2, loadbios doesn'

Re: Overlaying default grub.cfg makes qemu "fat:" partition inaccessible

2009-03-25 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Taking a look at grub-mkrescue, it seems that it creates a boot/grub/grub.cfg that executes an insmod for each specified module. It then copies the overlay files overwriting the just-created grub.cfg. The user's grub.cfg should either be appended to the one created by grub-mkrescue or there should