Re: [PATCH] fix load of RHEL ans SUSE images by correctly calculate ELF entry point

2010-10-19 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
st (made accordingly with sparc implementation) The patch was made passing -Bbp to diff as suggested by Vladimir. I tested with RHEL/SUSE images and some RHEL/SUSE kernel I had and worked correctly. Before the images failed to boot. Thank you for reviewing this. On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 04:29

Re: [RFT] Reed-Solomon

2010-09-27 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
You can see a explanation at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-09/msg00205.html -- Best Regards, Manoel Rebelo Abranches Software engineer IBM - Linux Technology Center - Brazil ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://l

[PATCH] fix load of RHEL ans SUSE images by correctly calculate ELF entry point

2010-09-27 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
This Patch loads kernel LOAD segment at the address fixed by PhysAddr with alignment Align at the ELF program header. Even if this address is in use other address with the same alignment is found "linuxadr" (since linux can relocate itself). The linux main function is then find in the adress linuxa

Build fails in PowerPC

2010-09-17 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
Mainline grub failed to build in PowerPC with the following error: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -W -I./include -DGRUB_UTIL=1 -DGRUB_LIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/grub\" -DLOCALEDIR= \"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DGRUB_MACHINE_IEEE1275=1 -DMACHINE=POWERPC_IEEE1275 -DGRUB_FILE=\"grub-core/partmap/g

Re: status of grub netboot in GRUB2

2010-09-01 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
That branch is a bit outdated, I'll update id until next week at most. We have so far the tftp protocol and a pseudo driver for open firmware. It worked grate in our tests so far. Though it is aimed only for sequential transfer at the moment, I'll talk with vladimir next week some about some change

Re: grub2 on power6 box.

2010-07-30 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 10:45 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 05:27:33PM +0300, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > Serbinenko wrote: > > On 07/23/2010 11:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > So how would one explain to grub-install that it needs part_msdos when > > > the partition

Re: grub2 on power6 box.

2010-07-23 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 11:39 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:57:37AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:56:27AM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > > Serbinenko wrote: > > > On 07/22/2010 11:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > > I am trying to

Re: [PATCH] delete and backspace; unimplemented keys

2010-02-16 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
Hi. As talked with phcoder in #grub on freenode, there is a cleaner version of the first patch, taking in consideration the recent changes in ofconsole. There is also a little fix to get the "~" character when the "DEL" key is pressed. On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 16:36 -0200, Ma

[PATCH] delete and backspace; unimplemented keys

2010-02-11 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
Hello. We have made those simple patches to fix some problems with unimplemented keys in ieee1275 terminals. The first patch (ofconsole_keys) implements the "backspace" and "delete" keys. The second one (ofconsole_unimplemented_keys) will clean the buffer of unknown keys and prevent garbage to show