i386/biosdisk - int 13h/service 48h response buffer issue?

2021-01-22 Thread Guilherme G. Piccoli
Hello GRUB community, I'm Guilherme Piccoli from Canonical, this is my first time posting on GRUB mailing-list/bug tracker. This is both a bug report but also an email to grub-devel ML; the goal of such duplication was to either loop more people, but also to rely on a better "archiving" of such dis

RE: Dell BIOS issue reading Disk Extended data

2021-01-22 Thread Limonciello, Mario
> > Hello Dell folks, I'm Guilherme Piccoli from Canonical - first of all, > apologies for the out-of-nowhere communication. We've been investigating > an issue that seems to date long time ago, and eventually we could > narrow it to what appears to be a Dell BIOS bug. Notice I'm also looping > a

Dell BIOS issue reading Disk Extended data

2021-01-22 Thread Guilherme G. Piccoli
Hello Dell folks, I'm Guilherme Piccoli from Canonical - first of all, apologies for the out-of-nowhere communication. We've been investigating an issue that seems to date long time ago, and eventually we could narrow it to what appears to be a Dell BIOS bug. Notice I'm also looping a kernel x86 ML

Re: [RFC] efi spi flash support - where to place

2021-01-22 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Michael, Am 22.01.21 um 10:42 schrieb Michael Lawnick: Am 22.01.2021 um 07:51 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 19.01.21 um 11:38 schrieb Michael Lawnick: Q: where to place the efi driver, where to place the command line handler. Currently I'd say - create grub-core/flash/efispinor.c for the dri

mbdump utility to dump multiboot header

2021-01-22 Thread Andrea G. Monaco
Hello everyone, some time ago I felt in need of an utility to dump the content of the multiboot header of an os image in human readable format. I couldn't find anything like that, so I wrote it. It's called mbdump and you can find it here https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mbdump. I tested

Re: [RFC] efi spi flash support - where to place

2021-01-22 Thread Michael Lawnick
Am 22.01.2021 um 07:51 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am 19.01.21 um 11:38 schrieb Michael Lawnick: Q: where to place the efi driver, where to place the command line handler. Currently I'd say - create grub-core/flash/efispinor.c for the driver I guess, that would be fine, but I found, `grub-core/bus/s