Re: Crypto Patch: Legal Issues

2008-09-01 Thread Simon Peter
> >> In the meantime, I've assigned copyright of my work (excluding the > >> AES and RIPEMD implementations) to the FSF. The documents are > >> probably already waiting in my mailbox at home. I'll get the > >> signing done once I'm back home at the end of this month. > > I assume that I shall need

Re: Crypto Patch: Legal Issues

2008-08-18 Thread Simon Peter
> > I was about the review Simon's patch. What is the best way to > > proceed. More than one person works on this and I am confused about > > how to deal with this. Would it help if Simons work got in first, > > or didn't you continue with this, but did you just pick pieces of > > code from him

Re: Strong Crypto Support for GRUB2

2008-07-21 Thread Simon Peter
> > What's missing to get my code into GRUB2 mainline? > I think you'll have to assign copyright to the FSF. What part of it? I learned that Michael Gorven already replaced the problematic parts (RIPEMD and AES) with versions from libgcrypt. The rest of the code is all GPL3. Is it about the extra

GRUB2 Multiboot and 64bit OSes

2007-09-30 Thread Simon Peter
Hi, is it true that GRUB2 multiboot, while supporting ELF64 images, does not switch to long mode on its own, before booting the kernel image? Thanks, Simon ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Multiboot2 doesn't work

2007-09-30 Thread Simon Peter
Hi, I built a Multiboot2 compliant kernel, but GRUB2 (current CVS) crashes when loading (not booting) it (i.e. as soon as I execute the multiboot command on it). I assert this is a bug in GRUB2, as it should print out an error message if there's something wrong with my image. I traced the bug bac

Strong Crypto Support for GRUB2

2007-09-13 Thread Simon Peter
Hi, is my patch for strong crypto support going to make it into GRUB2 mainline? Thanks, Simon ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Strong Crypto Support for GRUB2

2007-09-02 Thread Simon Peter
ub2-orig/crypto/rmd160.c > > 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100 +++ > > grub2/crypto/rmd160.c 2007-09-02 00:52:57.0 +0200 @@ > > -0,0 +1,430 @@ +/* > > + * 2007-09-01: Modified for GNU GRUB by Simon Peter > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > + */ > &

Re: [PATCH] Build issues with parallel make

2007-08-28 Thread Simon Peter
> > and correcting the two header file dependencies (not > > the binaries depend on the headers, but one of the source files, > > respectively). > This doesn't sound right. Since the source files (grub-setup.c, > grub-probe.c) are not dynamicaly generated, make doesn't need a rule > to "build" the

Re: [PATCH] Build issues with parallel make

2007-08-26 Thread Simon Peter
Hi! > > Making this work properly might be a bit trickier. I myself don't > > understand it (plus, I'm ruby illiterate), so I'm afraid I can't be > > of help on this. > Thank you for your response. As I said, it's pretty much a band-aid > response. I'll take deeper look at the build process. I