Re: eltorito support ..

2008-04-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 10:49 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Sorry, I should have reported it earlier. > > The right fix would be to ensure that symlist.c would be invalid if > the > compiler fails, to protect compiler arguments, to capture compiler > errors in gensymlist.sh and to recognize gensym

Google's Summer of Code 2008 application deadline extended

2008-04-02 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Hi All, If you are student and you were wondering should you participate in Google's Summer of Code... They have extended application deadline to April 7, 5:00 PM PDT / 00:00 UTC April 8, 2008. So there is plenty of time left and we still have a room for new applications :). So keep em coming

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

Google SoC, Fancy Menus or USB keyboard

2008-04-02 Thread Colin D Bennett
I am interested in possibly contributing to the GRUB project in the Google Summer of Code, and I was interested in further discussing the Fancy Menus idea. I have not used GRUB 2 yet (I am using Gentoo Linux primarily, with GRUB 0.9x), though I have downloaded and browsed the source code. I as

Re: Google SoC, Fancy Menus or USB keyboard

2008-04-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:43 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > Does GRUB code run in real mode? I was thinking that double-buffering > the graphics might be important for fancy graphics effects, and wondered > whether is it difficult to allocate and deal with a megabyte or so block > of memory? Wh

Re: Google SoC, Fancy Menus or USB keyboard

2008-04-02 Thread Colin D Bennett
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:43 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: Does GRUB code run in real mode? I was thinking that double-buffering the graphics might be important for fancy graphics effects, and wondered whether is it difficult to allocate and deal with a megabyte or so blo

Re: Google SoC, Fancy Menus or USB keyboard

2008-04-02 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 18:54 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > Thanks for the info. Of course I also agree that the menu should be > portable; my mention of real mode was, I guess, a question of whether we > have a 32-bit linear address space, rather than specifics about the > processor mode. I w

Re: Google SoC, Fancy Menus or USB keyboard

2008-04-02 Thread Colin D Bennett
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 18:54 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: I was debugging the code to switch to the protected mode lately, so I can assure you that the address space is linear :) Is there anyone in particular on the GRUB project that I should be in contact with about t