Re: Development practices?

2015-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
I won't speak for all of these, but: On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:34:29PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > - Patches are not posted by committers. I see some patches that >appear out of nowhere in the grub source code but they >don't seem to be posted on the mailing list? Is that becau

Development practices?

2015-09-03 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Hey, I've noticed a couple of things that the community seems to be doing different than other open source projects and was wondering why? And also how to conform to this (or perhaps it is time to change?) so that ideas/releases/patches can move forward. - Patches are not posted by committers. I

Re: Where in GRUB2 source code is the handover/jump to kernel code on x86?

2015-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 02:49:45PM +0200, de...@gmx.de wrote: > Plain-text mail would be appreciated, or at least mail with a text/plain part. > I'm looking for the line of code where GRUB2 finally jumps to kernel > code and thus hands over execution on x86 systems? I guess it's in an > assemble

Where in GRUB2 source code is the handover/jump to kernel code on x86?

2015-09-03 Thread deffo
I'm looking for the line of code where GRUB2 finally jumps to kernel code and thus hands over execution on x86 systems? I guess it's in an assembler file since this is very low architecture stuff. I looked at the source files in /grub-core/boot/i386/pc/*.S and found a JMP in boot.S at line 455 but