Re: Re: [patch] search for partition using GPT GUID

2010-02-24 Thread gburanov
> I asked you for at least a usecase when it makes a difference but till > now I've read only about theoretical advantages. Ok, my usecase is the following: We are installing grub to EFI system partition and on the next load it must load itself (rmadisk&kernel) from Windows partiton (where our ma

[RESEND PATCH V3] Backup old boot sectors before installation

2010-02-24 Thread Zhu Yi
Make grub-setup backup the old boot sectors into a file (bootsectors.bak) before overwriting it. The backup image starts from the MBR to the end of core.img position (including embed regions). This makes it possible for a user to later restore it. A new option -o|--restore (with optional argument)

Re: Help regarding booting application processor

2010-02-24 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
> Ok, I will think in this direction. I just wanted to verify whether > the code in the trampoline.S is correct or not. Well, I'm not qualified to review your trampoline, I read x86 assembler but I'm not familiar with the details of the boot sequence. I think you're in the right place to find some

[PATCH] Font antialiasing v2

2010-02-24 Thread Evgeny Kolesnikov
Hello! Here is improved patch for fonts anti-aliasing. Includes: 1) Optimized blending blitters for 8-bit masks; 2) Absolute compatibility with pf2 format. No PFF3 magic additions. Affected files: font/font.c include/grub/fbblit.h include/grub/font.h

Re: [PATCHv2] a new filesystem module for nilfs2

2010-02-24 Thread Jiro SEKIBA
Hi, At Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:57:57 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > [1 ] > [1.1 ] > Jiro SEKIBA wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is a revised patch to support nilfs2, a log file system. > > > Could you please answer the e-mail I send you about copyright? Was the following ma

Re: [PATCHv2] a new filesystem module for nilfs2

2010-02-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Jiro SEKIBA wrote: > Hi, > > This is a revised patch to support nilfs2, a log file system. > Could you please answer the e-mail I send you about copyright? > I've checked it the first one on qemu-system-ppc and found a few bugs. > Thank you for encouraging me to test it on qemu-system-ppc! > > T

Re: ~3TB ext4 volume not read correctly by ext2-fs driver in GRUB2

2010-02-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Try attached patch Tony Vroon wrote: > Ladies and gentlemen, > > It would appear that the ext2-fs driver is not reliably able to read > directories on my ~3TB / filesystem: > /dev/root 3.4T 1.7T 1.6T 52% / > /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered) > > Whilst doin

Re: [PATCH] fix build breakage by ieee1275 ofconsole

2010-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 05:52:12PM -0700, Joey Korkames wrote: > A recent trunk commit (r2213) prevents me from building grub2 (Debian > Lenny amd64): here's my fix. I have no idea what the end result is (and > have no PPC equipment to test with), so maybe someone who understands > this code can

Re: Help regarding booting application processor

2010-02-24 Thread Swapnil Pimpale
Thanks for your quick reply. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:00 PM, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Swapnil Pimpale > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >>  I am a final year engineering student and I am doing my project in >> GRUB-1.97~beta4 and Linux Kernel 2.6.24.7. >> >>  I am