Re: New maintainers

2009-08-05 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, Ops, of course this had to be private. I'm going to translate. On Aug/05/2009, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > Hola, Hello, > On Aug/05/2009, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:02:39PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > After a long discussion, I am happy

Re: New maintainers

2009-08-05 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hola, On Aug/05/2009, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:02:39PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After a long discussion, I am happy to announce that Pavel and Robert > > are added to the list of GNU GRUB maintainers. I really hope this > > will improve the current

Re: [PATCH] New object format

2009-08-05 Thread Bean
Hi, Update: Support mach-o object file, now you can compile grub2 in OSX using gcc 4.0 from Xcode. No other tool is needed except gcc and as. Tested ok with i386-pc and i386-efi. BTW, here are a list of issues of apple gcc 4.0: Local jumps with more that one digit (such as 10f, 10b) doesn't wo

Re: New maintainers

2009-08-05 Thread Edward Shishkin
Marco Gerards wrote: Hello, After a long discussion, I am happy to announce that Pavel and Robert are added to the list of GNU GRUB maintainers. Congrats. Edward. I really hope this will improve the current situation. I will add them to savannah soonish, but they already are official GNU

Re: New maintainers

2009-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:02:39PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Hello, > > After a long discussion, I am happy to announce that Pavel and Robert > are added to the list of GNU GRUB maintainers. I really hope this > will improve the current situation. I will add them to savannah > soonish, but t

New maintainers

2009-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hello, After a long discussion, I am happy to announce that Pavel and Robert are added to the list of GNU GRUB maintainers. I really hope this will improve the current situation. I will add them to savannah soonish, but they already are official GNU GRUB maintainers. Thanks, Marco __

Re: i386/pc/grub-setup.c question

2009-08-05 Thread Seth Goldberg
main () sets the root device if it's not given. grub_file_open doestn't need a device if a root device is set. Else things like `set root=(hd0,1);linux /vmlnuz' wouldn't work either in real grub. It works as long as the path is relative to the root. I.e. grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/s

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 05.08.2009, 12:50 +0200 schrieb Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko: > > Vladimir said FreeBSD doestn't support multipath. > Unless I mistyped I said exactly the opposite: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom_fox&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html Oh

Re: [PATCH] use UUID to map system devices to grub devices

2009-08-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> Vladimir said FreeBSD doestn't support multipath. Unless I mistyped I said exactly the opposite: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geom_fox&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html > > > -- > Felix Zielcke > Proud Debian Maintainer > > > > ___

Re: VBE info request bit per Multiboot Specification 1

2009-08-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Jan Setje-Eilers wrote: >   > >> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:37:19PM -0400, Francis Shim wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> In the Multiboot specifications (version 1), there is a flag that >>> the OS Image can set to request that the boot loader provide VBE >>> information t

Re: [PATCH] multiboot on EFI

2009-08-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:53:32PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> Was successfully tested with qemu-tianocore with example multiboot >> kernel from multiboot specification. Since real EFI has no VGA video >> fields play a cruci

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Use relocator framework for multiboot1

2009-08-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:10:18PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> +#define GRUB_MULTIBOOT_STACK_SIZE 4096 >> [...] >> +#define stack_addr(x)                ((void *) ((x) + code_size + >> cmdline_length + boot_loader_name_leng

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Relocator framework

2009-08-05 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
>> +#ifdef __x86_64__ >> +extern grub_uint64_t grub_relocator32_backward_src; >> +#else >> +extern grub_uint32_t grub_relocator32_backward_src; >> +#endif > > You could make this a pointer, or grub_uintptr_t > (the latter we don't yet have, it seems like a good excuse to > add it if a pointer is no

Re: i386/pc/grub-setup.c question

2009-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 05.08.2009, 01:41 -0700 schrieb Seth Goldberg: > Hi, > > >I've been looking at grub-setup.c and am perplexed by the following code: > > >/* Make sure that GRUB reads the identical image as the OS. */ >tmp_img = xmalloc (core_size); >core_path_dev = grub_util_ge

i386/pc/grub-setup.c question

2009-08-05 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi, I've been looking at grub-setup.c and am perplexed by the following code: /* Make sure that GRUB reads the identical image as the OS. */ tmp_img = xmalloc (core_size); core_path_dev = grub_util_get_path (dir, core_file); /* It is a Good Thing to sync two times. */ sync ();