Re: Is objconv a requirement for building Grub?

2016-04-18 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
That's more in place on grub-devel. 19.04.2016 03:27, Eric Andrew Lewis пишет: > I'm trying to build a patched version of Grub from source on a Mac. I've > installed all the requirements in the INSTALL file, but got an error while > running ./configure > > configure: error: objconv not found whic

Re: [PATCH v2] build: Use AC_HEADER_MAJOR to find device macros

2016-04-18 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > Depending on the OS/libc, device macros are defined in different > headers. > > sys/mkdev.h - BSD, Sun > sys/sysmacros.h - glibc (Linux) It seems I was wrong about BSD; it is defined directly in sys/types.h on FreeBSD at least. https://svnwe

GRUB and File System consistency check.

2016-04-18 Thread gatis paeglis
Hello, I have one mystery that I can't find an answer to. I see that most distros keep kernel/initramfs images on the same partition as the root file system. Isn't this unsafe in a scenario where there is a power cut and then next time when booting, GRUB will be reading kernel/initramfs from an in

Re: [PATCH] fs: remove implicit compiler calls to memset/memcpy

2016-04-18 Thread Pete Batard
On 2016.04.18 12:49, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: In any case it's not 2.02 material, so I put it lower in my priority list Thanks for considering it further - much appreciated. I should point out that there's obviously nothing blocking for me, so I'm fine with any delay. On 2016.04

Re: [PATCH] fs: remove implicit compiler calls to memset/memcpy

2016-04-18 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Le 18 avr. 2016 20:36, "Andrei Borzenkov" a écrit : > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Pete Batard wrote: > > On 2016.04.18 07:50, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> > >> You can use asm to get around msvc limitations. Sth like > >> > >> .global memcpy > >> memcpy: > >>jmp grub_m

Re: [PATCH] fs: remove implicit compiler calls to memset/memcpy

2016-04-18 Thread Andrei Borzenkov
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2016.04.18 07:50, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> >> You can use asm to get around msvc limitations. Sth like >> >> .global memcpy >> memcpy: >>jmp grub_memcpy > > > Yes I'm well aware I could try to create my own library (or

Re: [PATCH] fs: remove implicit compiler calls to memset/memcpy

2016-04-18 Thread Pete Batard
On 2016.04.18 07:50, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: You can use asm to get around msvc limitations. Sth like .global memcpy memcpy: jmp grub_memcpy Yes I'm well aware I could try to create my own library (or equivalent) that redefines memcpy/memset, using some workaround to avoid