Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-15 Thread Christian Franke
Robert Millan wrote: > > > > I already have such a tool (based on objcopy with a small fix for > > PE->ELF added). See this thread: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00174.html > > I understand that it may be difficult to fix this in a way the > binutils maintainers will

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-15 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:36:48PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Alternatively, why don't you convert PE to ELF somewhere in util/ or > > so? See how the EFI port handles the reverse conversion (the ia64 > > patch adds more of this). > > > > I already have such a

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-14 Thread Christian Franke
Robert Millan wrote: > > Alternatively, why don't you convert PE to ELF somewhere in util/ or > so? See how the EFI port handles the reverse conversion (the ia64 > patch adds more of this). > I already have such a tool (based on objcopy with a small fix for PE->ELF added). See this thread: http

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-14 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:24:56PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > >I think that'd be much better than adding support for PE to GRUB (either > >native > >or via conversion layers). > > > > > > Yes. But this only better in theory, unless someone maintains such a > toolchain for the Cygwin dist

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-13 Thread Christian Franke
Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:28:36PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: The cygwin distro does not include any cross compilation tools. A package that require tools not in the distro would not be accepted. The package is actually build with native cygwin gcc+binutils. S

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:28:36PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > The cygwin distro does not include any cross compilation tools. A > package that require tools not in the distro would not be accepted. > > The package is actually build with native cygwin gcc+binutils. Sorry, I got out of con

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-13 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:46:38PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > Pavel Roskin wrote: > >On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:44 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > > > > >>OK, then I would suggest to (re)start with the small change for > >>grub-mkdevicemap. > >> > >>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-07 Thread Christian Franke
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:44 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: OK, then I would suggest to (re)start with the small change for grub-mkdevicemap. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-12/msg00179.html The patch is still current and already got positive feedback

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:44 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > OK, then I would suggest to (re)start with the small change for > grub-mkdevicemap. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-12/msg00179.html > > The patch is still current and already got positive feedback from Marco >

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-05 Thread Christian Franke
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 21:56 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: OK, if there is no chance to get this accepted, grub2 project managers should tell me soon. I'm not a project manager, but I would hate to see useful code discarded. :-) I think the ability to insta

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 21:56 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > OK, if there is no chance to get this accepted, grub2 project managers > should tell me soon. I'm not a project manager, but I would hate to see useful code discarded. I think the ability to install GRUB from Windows would allow creat

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Christian Franke
Bean wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... The cygwin distro does not include any cross compilation tools. A package that require tools not in the distro would not be accepted. The package is actually build with native cygwin gcc+binutils.

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Bean
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Christian Franke > > wrote: > > > ... > > > > Just for info: GRUB2 is now available as an experimental package in > > > the Cygwin distribution. > > > > > > > Hi, >

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Christian Franke
Bean wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Christian Franke > wrote: > > ... > > Just for info: GRUB2 is now available as an experimental package in > > the Cygwin distribution. > > > > Hi, > > That's nice, but how do you create elf file in cygwin, use cross > compilation tools ? > The cyg

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Bean
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007, Christian Franke wrote: > > > I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of grub2. > > > > > > Just for info: GRUB2 is now available as an experimental package in the > Cygwin distribution. Hi, Tha

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2008-04-02 Thread Christian Franke
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007, Christian Franke wrote: I would like to contribute my Cygwin port of grub2. Just for info: GRUB2 is now available as an experimental package in the Cygwin distribution. Christian ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gn

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2007-11-09 Thread Christian Franke
Hi, Marco Gerards wrote: > > ... > > Busy with other projects, I decided to "release early" in one large > > patch. > > If desired, I can send smaller patches in 2-3 weeks or so. > > > > Meantime, comments on the large patch are appreciated. > > > > You also sent in some small patches. Can I a

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2007-11-09 Thread Marco Gerards
Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, [...] >> I see... Actually this patch has to be splitted to multiple different >> patches as not all changes seem to be related to Cygwin building. And it >> makes it much easier to get approved in smaller slices. And for each >> patch, describe i

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2007-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 03:51:34PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > Agree. > > Busy with other projects, I decided to "release early" in one large patch. > If desired, I can send smaller patches in 2-3 weeks or so. > > Meantime, comments on the large patch are appreciated. Please be patient when

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2007-10-21 Thread Christian Franke
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Christian Franke wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:03:35PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: Could you send it as an attachment? This way it's easier to comment on it contextualy. I didn't want to send a ~45KB attachment in my fir

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2007-10-21 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Christian Franke wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:03:35PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: >> Could you send it as an attachment? This way it's easier to comment on >> it contextualy. > I didn't want to send a ~45KB attachment in my first mail to this list ;-) > Patch is

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2007-10-21 Thread Christian Franke
Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:03:35PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: A patch vs. current CVS (cvs co -D "2007-10-16 UTC" ...) is available here: http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/grub/grub2-20071016-cygwin.patch A proposed changelog entry is located in the patch itself (Change

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2007-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:03:35PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > A patch vs. current CVS (cvs co -D "2007-10-16 UTC" ...) is available > here: > http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/grub/grub2-20071016-cygwin.patch > A proposed changelog entry is located in the patch itself > (Changelog.cygwin). Cou

Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

2007-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:03:35PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > - A memtest86+ zImage (from grml 1.0) does not boot when loaded with > "linux" command. Same image works with "kernel" command from grub 0.97. That's a known bug (not cygwin-related) -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I wan