Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks)

2005-10-22 Thread Timothy Baldwin
On Saturday 22 Oct 2005 01:06, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Saturday 22 October 2005 01:46 am, Timothy Baldwin wrote: > > Misleading as POSIX uses off_t as a byte offset. Also grub_off_t would be > > logical type name for file offsets, which should use a separate type to > > aid changing it. > >

Tab completion bug fixes

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Like I said yesterday, I was fixing tab completion. Here is a patch for that. It changes the kernel and the command line parsing a lot and is a beginning for scripting support (at least for the lexer). So I will not commit it right away. If I do not receive complaints before Monday I will

Scripting support

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Last days I have been thinking about scripting support. With my last patch it should be easy to implement. I hope Vladimir is still interested in this. The most important is the general design. I think we shouldn't put too much in the core and not even in normal mode. This is the same app

Re: Scripting support

2005-10-22 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Marco Gerards wrote: Hi, Last days I have been thinking about scripting support. With my last patch it should be easy to implement. I hope Vladimir is still interested in this. Yes. Exactly now I'm on holiday so I have a lot of time. And also I have some ideas for some new GRUB features b

Re: Scripting support

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Vladimir Serbinenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Vladimir, >>Last days I have been thinking about scripting support. With my last >>patch it should be easy to implement. I hope Vladimir is still >>interested in this. >> >> > Yes. Exactly now I'm on holiday so I have a lot of time. And also I

Re: Scripting support

2005-10-22 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Hello In bash when you define a function it appears under environment variables. IMHO it's useless to store completely the source code as an environment variables. I propose that the functions will be preparsed (converted to internal format ready for execution) because it will gretelya simp

Re: Scripting support

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Vladimir Serbinenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>That can be translated into some kind of pseudo language: >> >>1: list = 1 2 3 >>2: read i, list >>3: echo $i >>4: check list >>5: je 2 >> >>I know it's stupid and kind of silly like this. But we have to define >>a language. It's important to dis

Re: Scripting support

2005-10-22 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Marco Gerards wrote: Vladimir Serbinenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think we first have to determine: 1) Which commands should be supported. What about && || ! case do done elif else esac fi for function if in then until while { } [[ ]] in scripting engine. I think that time is co

Re: Scripting support

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think we first have to determine: > > 1) Which commands should be supported. > 2) The smallest subset of commands that should be generated. > > Did you have a look at how bash does this? Perhaps it even has a > completely different approach... I just

Re: Scripting support

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Vladimir Serbinenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I think we first have to determine: >> >>1) Which commands should be supported. >> >> > What about && || ! case do done elif else esac fi for function if in > then until while { } [[ ]] This sounds fine to me. Although I don't remember !, { } and

pxegrub/nbgrub default config file

2005-10-22 Thread Nilesh Agrawal
Hi all, I am trying to boot multiple diskless clients using pxegrub/nbgrub. I want to have a different config files for different clients. Now, i have tried specifying option space netboot; option netboot.grub-menu code 150 = text; option netboot.grub-menu "(nd)/tftpboot/menu.lst"; in the dhcp.co

Re: Wiki

2005-10-22 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Friday 21 October 2005 06:04 pm, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Anyway, we will migrate to another host. I hope I will have time to set it up in this weekend. I have done right now. This is the new one: http://grub.enbug.org/ Great! Wi

Re: ls and grub_vsprintf bug fixes.

2005-10-22 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Oct 21, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Timothy Baldwin wrote: Normal mode ls leaks disk handles because it doesn't close files properly. grub_vsprintf doesn't terminate a string it passes to grub_strtoul. Have these fixes been applied? Savannah seems to be down, so I can't tell. :( I am happy with

Re: USB kernel driver

2005-10-22 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because of not knowing the GRUB 2 architecture very well so far, it would be nice if you could give me some tipps about - what does the GRUB development enviroment looks like (means how does your test PCs look like, how to put updates on th

Re: [PATCH] DL support on usparc & cls disabling when debugging

2005-10-22 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Oct 22, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Vincent Pelletier wrote: Vincent Pelletier wrote: I'll send a separate patch for the .mk & .rmk files, because I have a lot of dust in those files. Here they are, along with cache.S I'll commit those tomorrow if nothing is wrong with those (conf/sparc64-ieee1275.r