Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:31:57PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> GRUB already has caching code, see kern/disk.c. So this just can >> better be removed, to fix deallocation issues, etc. > > The caching is mainly for decompression. In NTFS, the basic decompressio

Re: NTFS file system driver (update 3)

2007-07-30 Thread Bean
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 01:19:32PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Can you pass it around inside one of the structs? I understand that > passing it around as parameter is not really nice. The problem is > that this might actually break other code, which I want to prevent. I > hope you see this mig

Re: [OT] grub 0.95 featured in marvel comic

2007-07-30 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, might not be right on-topic, but I thought you guys would find this > amusing: > > http://ubuntudaily.com/wp-content/uploads/1185408112656.jpg You made my day :-) I also mentioned this on my blog. I will try to write about GRUB 2 development fro

[PATCH] efika memory issues

2007-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:30:11PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi Sven, > > I have a pair of questions about the memory issue.. > > [...] Ok, after some discussion on IRC, and invaluable help by Sven in documenting smartfirmware behaviour, I came up with this patch. Please let me know what

Re: grub2 ChangeLog conf/i386-pc.rmk conf/powerpc-i...

2007-07-30 Thread Marco Gerards
"Jerone Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This was no mistake. So here is the thinking here (I figured this > would come up). The multiboot heads outside of the grub directory are > not grub specific. This gives other operating systems or programs (in > this case GPL 3 compatible operating syst

Re: grub2 ChangeLog conf/i386-pc.rmk conf/powerpc-i...

2007-07-30 Thread Jerone Young
On 7/30/07, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jerone Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This was no mistake. So here is the thinking here (I figured this > > would come up). The multiboot heads outside of the grub directory are > > not grub specific. This gives other operating syste

Re: [PATCH] efika memory issues

2007-07-30 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On 7/30/07, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:30:11PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > Hi Sven, > > > > I have a pair of questions about the memory issue.. > > > > [...] > > Ok, after some discussion on IRC, and invaluable help by Sven in documenting > smartfi