Re: [PATCH 2/2] Minimise writes to EFI variable storage

2019-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
First of all, thanks very much for doing this! (For other people: I came up with a previous way of doing this years ago, using efibootmgr to ask about the state of a variable before maybe deleting and re-setting it.) On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:05:46PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >Some UEFI firmwar

Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Add new MSR modules (rdmsr/wrmsr)

2019-03-12 Thread Jesús Diéguez Fernández
El 12/3/19 a las 20:12, Daniel Kiper escribió: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 12:14:15PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:26:37AM +0100, Jesús Diéguez Fernández wrote: >>> In order to be able to read from and write to model-specific registers, >>> two new modules are added. They

Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Add new MSR modules (rdmsr/wrmsr)

2019-03-12 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 12:14:15PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:26:37AM +0100, Jesús Diéguez Fernández wrote: > > In order to be able to read from and write to model-specific registers, > > two new modules are added. They are i386 specific, as the cpuid module. > > > > rd

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add %X to grub_vsnprintf_real and friends

2019-03-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:05:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: >This is needed for UEFI Boot* variables, which the standard says are >named using upper-case hexadecimal. >--- > grub-core/kern/misc.c | 10 -- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > >diff --git a/grub-core/kern/misc

Re: GRUB 2.04 freeze date announcement

2019-03-12 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:31:40PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > > > We are happy to announce that the upcoming release of Grub 2.04 is expected > > in March. In order to prepare the relea

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add %X to grub_vsnprintf_real and friends

2019-03-12 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:05:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > This is needed for UEFI Boot* variables, which the standard says are > named using upper-case hexadecimal. Missing SOB. I assume that I can add yours. If yes then Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper Daniel ___

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add %X to grub_vsnprintf_real and friends

2019-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 01:19:09PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 03:05:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > This is needed for UEFI Boot* variables, which the standard says are > > named using upper-case hexadecimal. > > Missing SOB. I assume that I can add yours. If yes then

Re: [PATCH] Save/restore CWD more reliably on Unix

2019-03-12 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 02:37:17PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Various GRUB utilities fail if the current directory doesn't exist, > because grub_find_device chdirs to a different directory and then fails > when trying to chdir back. Gnulib's save-cwd module uses fchdir instead > when it can, avo

Re: GRUB 2.04 freeze date announcement

2019-03-12 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi, On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 12:31:40PM +0100, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Hello everyone! > > We are happy to announce that the upcoming release of Grub 2.04 is expected > in March. In order to prepare the release we would freeze on Monday, March > 11, 23:59:59 UTC. From that point no n