Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk

2008-08-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Pavel Roskin wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 21:30 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 09:28:39PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, I'm thinking that we have quite a bit of duplicate stuff in each of the 4 i386 ports (cpuid, pci, serial, etc) that could well live in a firmware-agnos

Re: grub to help refund of pre-installations

2008-08-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:59:20 Michael Gorven wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:39:21 Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:24:33AM +0200, Michael Gorven wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2008 07:32:40 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: This news, basically, says that m

Re: menu loop (patch)

2008-08-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:21:47AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also like no wrapping mode. But lets assume we have nice graphical menu with "cylinder" of menu entries that roll when you press key up/down. Oh my god. Tell me you're not planning to implement OpenGL in

Re: [PATCH] Fix color problem the grub-emu

2008-08-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Bean wrote: Hi, Currently, the color handling in grub-emu is broken, sometimes you see nothing on screen. This patch fix it, now variable menu_color_normal and menu_color_highlight works properly in grub-emu. + +static grub_uint8_t color_map[NUM_COLORS] = +{ + COLOR_BLACK, + COLOR_BLUE, +

Re: [PATCH] PXE support for grub2

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> +GRUB_MOD_INIT(pxe) >>> +{ >>> + (void) mod;/* To stop warning. */ >>> + >>> + grub_pxe_detect (); >>> + if (grub_pxe_pxenv) >>> +{ >>> + grub_disk_dev_register (&grub_pxe_dev); >>> + grub_fs_register (&grub_pxefs_fs); >

Re: [PATCH] Fix color problem the grub-emu

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Currently, the color handling in grub-emu is broken, sometimes you see >> nothing on screen. This patch fix it, now variable menu_color_normal >> and menu_color_highlight works properly in gru

Re: [PATCH] grub-mkelfimage

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The elf version of grub-mkimage is multiplatform, so it makes no sense to > keep it as arch-specific in the build system IMHO. > > This patch renames it to grub-mkelfimage, and arranges the build system & > headers so that its build parameters are shared

Re: GRUB has a problem with a big grub.cfg

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have found the bug, it's caused by buffer overflown. In get_line > (normal/main.c), if the string length is multiple of 64, the ending \0 > will overflow the buffer, this patch fix the problem: Looks fine to me. -- Marco __

Re: [PATCH] Fix color problem the grub-emu

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Currently, the color handling in grub-emu is broken, sometimes you see >> nothing on screen. This patch fix it, now variable menu_color_normal >> and menu_color_highlight works p

Re: [PATCH] Misc patches for grub2

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a collection of miscellaneous patches, it includes: Please do not collect patches. Independant changes can better go into independant patches. Mails like this are easily overseen and so are important changes made by such patch. > 1, move util/env

Re: two bugs in configfile parser

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ok, I've found the bug. In editor_getline (normal/menu_entry.c), it >> should return a string allocated with grub_strdup, instead of the >> original one, as the result will be re

Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Christian Franke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a release tarball, It IMO also makes sense to include > util/parser.tab.c. It is platform-independent and rarely changed. This > would remove bison from the list of prerequisites. Fine for me. -- Marco ___

Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I think we should remove conf/*.mk from the Subversion repository. If > people are going to be developing on GRUB and checking out svn > branches, then I think it's fine to require them to have Ruby. For > released tarballs that we expect

Re: Bug#475718: Bug #475718 grub gets confused by hybrid apple/pc partmap

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:36:25PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: >> >>If you ask me, I think this unfortunately looks like a complex detection >> problem -- which I think is eventually going to start with a *successful* >> detection of the Apple part

Re: [PATCH] Fix color problem the grub-emu

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Currently, the color handling in grub-emu is broken, sometimes you see >>> nothing on screen. This patch fix it, now variable menu_color_

Re: [PATCH] Test for files with ls

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Lampersperger Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have there a small patch to commands/ls.c, whichs makes the > ls-command return an error for non existing fils (as the bash ls > command). > > With this patch, one can have in the grub.cfg files statements like: > > if ls /boot/grub/grub.c

Re: [PATCH] Fix color problem the grub-emu

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently, the color handling in grub-emu is broken, sometimes you see > nothing on screen. This patch fix it, now variable menu_color_normal > and menu_color_highlight works properly in grub-emu. > > 2008-08-02 Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * util/co

Re: [PATCH] Add support for /dev/md/N style mdraid devices

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Freitag, den 01.08.2008, 17:09 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > >> Maybe there's a way to make it even better so please comment all of you >> grub-devels :) > > Thanks to Robert who suggested asprintf > > I hope the #define _GNU_SOURCE which is needed f

Re: [PATCH] Drivemap module

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi Javier, Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El lun, 04-08-2008 a las 22:51 +0200, Marco Gerards escribió: >> Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > After your latest replay, I "reevaluated" my stubbornness WRT some of >> > your advices, and I've changed a few things: >> > >

Re: [PATCH] Drivemap module

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > There is, however, one point in which I keep my objection: comparisons >> > between a variable and a constant should be of the form CONSTANT == >> > variable and not in the reverse order, since an erroneous but quite >> > possible change of == fo

Re: [PATCH] Drivemap module

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyway, since "they" are more likely to maintain the code in >> the long run than you, in general, the question is whether >> the code is more likely to become buggy by their hacking on >> it, if it follows project coding style or someone else's

Re: [PATCH] skip over invalid BSD partitions

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 12:16 +0200 schrieb Marco Gerards: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > How about using grub_dprintf instead? > > Agreed. > Attached. I hope I get soon used to your changelog :) 2008-08-05 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * partmap/pc.c

Re: Bug#475718: Bug #475718 grub gets confused by hybrid apple/pc partmap

2008-08-05 Thread Chris Knadle
On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:36:25PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > >>If you ask me, I think this unfortunately looks like a complex > >> detection problem -- which I think is eventually going to start w

Re: [PATCH] skip over invalid BSD partitions

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 12:49 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 12:16 +0200 schrieb Marco Gerards: > > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > How about using grub_dprintf instead? > > > > Agreed. > > > > Attached. I forgot 2 little spaces ;) > I

Re: ata.c and sata disks

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi Marco, Marco "Vega" Trucillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 06 May 2008 21:57:37 +0200, Marco "Vega" Trucillo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 6 May 2008 17:05:53 +0200, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Marco Gerards sent a patch to add PCI support to ata.c, but i

Re: [PATCH] skip over invalid BSD partitions

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:40:17PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: >> > - return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_PART_TABLE, >> > - "no space for disk label"); >> > - >> > + { >> > +grub_erro

Re: two bugs in configfile parser

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I've found the bug. In editor_getline (normal/menu_entry.c), it > should return a string allocated with grub_strdup, instead of the > original one, as the result will be release in the lexer once it's > done. The patch looks fine. You can commit it, if

Re: [PATCH] High resolution time/TSC patch v3

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi Colin, Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another updated TSC patch. Now it detects TSC support for x86 CPUs at > runtime and selects either the TSC or RTC time source. This way 386 > and 486 CPUs without RDTSC instruction support are supported. > > Robert Millan was interested in

Re: [PATCH] Home-End keys in menu

2008-08-05 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hello, Some weeks ago I sent a patch that didn't have any discussion. I'm sending it again, maybe everybody was in holidays :-) Actually I updated the patch (added some spaces to comply with the coding style). * menu/normal.c: Add Home and End keys in grub-menu Also, I added a comment that wou

Re: [PATCH] update-grub for Cygwin

2008-08-05 Thread Christian Franke
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:40:02PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:46:03PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: Here a more generic version which allows to specifiy windows system dirs by /etc/default/grub:GRUB_WIND

Re: [PATCH] skip over invalid BSD partitions

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008-08-05 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * partmap/pc.c (pc_partition_map_iterate): Do not abort on an invalid > BSD > magic or if there's no space left, use grub_dprintf to issue a warning. Looks fine. > + { > +

Re: [PATCH] Home-End keys in menu

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Hi, Carles Pina i Estany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some weeks ago I sent a patch that didn't have any discussion. I'm > sending it again, maybe everybody was in holidays :-) > > Actually I updated the patch (added some spaces to comply with the > coding style). > > * menu/normal.c: Add Home a

Re: [PATCH] skip over invalid BSD partitions

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 15:10 +0200 schrieb Marco Gerards: > Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2008-08-05 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * partmap/pc.c (pc_partition_map_iterate): Do not abort on an invalid > > BSD > > magic or if there's no space left, use

Re: [PATCH] skip over invalid BSD partitions

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 15:10 +0200 schrieb Marco Gerards: > Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2008-08-05 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * partmap/pc.c (pc_partition_map_iterate): Do not abort on an invalid > > BSD > > magic or if there's no space left, use

Re: [PATCH] Add support for /dev/md/N style mdraid devices

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 15:03 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > > I moved it now to include/util/misc.h so in the future it can be used > for all utils. I just recompiled it with an 'svn up' before and a full compile is broken with that way. I just include config.h now which defines this. 2

Re: [PATCH] Add support for /dev/md/N style mdraid devices

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 15:36 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 15:03 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > > > > > I moved it now to include/util/misc.h so in the future it can be used > > for all utils. > > I just recompiled it with an 'svn up' before and a full compile

Re: [PATCH] Misc patches for grub2

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This is a collection of miscellaneous patches, it includes: > > Please do not collect patches. Independant changes can better go into > independant patches. Mails like this are

Re: GRUB has a problem with a big grub.cfg

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have found the bug, it's caused by buffer overflown. In get_line >> (normal/main.c), if the string length is multiple of 64, the ending \0 >> will overflow the buffer, this pat

Re: [PATCH] Fix color problem the grub-emu

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Currently, the color handling in grub-emu is broken, so

[PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

2008-08-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
I following the GRUB 2 gdb debugging instructions this week and I was successful in using QEMU and gdb to debug GRUB. I wondered if we could make this a bit easier -- primarily by making GRUB's build system generate the '.elf' files with full symbol info without requiring a patch. Attached is a p

Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 07:42 -0700 schrieb Colin D Bennett: > I following the GRUB 2 gdb debugging instructions this week and I was > successful in using QEMU and gdb to debug GRUB. I wondered if we could > make this a bit easier -- primarily by making GRUB's build system > generate the '.el

Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

2008-08-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:05:57 +0200 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 07:42 -0700 schrieb Colin D Bennett: > > I following the GRUB 2 gdb debugging instructions this week and I > > was successful in using QEMU and gdb to debug GRUB. I wondered if > > we could

Re: [PATCH] PXE support for grub2

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +GRUB_MOD_INIT(pxe) +{ + (void) mod;/* To stop warning. */ + + grub_pxe_detect (); + if (grub_pxe_pxenv) +{ + gru

Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 08:11 -0700 schrieb Colin D Bennett: > > Interesting. Well, I think I used the 'load_all_modules' function > instead of just 'load_modules'. And IIRC, I first used the GRUB legacy > floppy image that was provided to chainload GRUB 2 over QEMU's built-in > tftp, but I

Re: [PATCH] skip over invalid BSD partitions

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 15:10 +0200 schrieb Marco Gerards: >> Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > 2008-08-05 Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >> >* partmap/pc.c (pc_partition_map_iterate): Do not abort on an invalid >> >

Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

2008-08-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Marco Gerards wrote: Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think we should remove conf/*.mk from the Subversion repository. If people are going to be developing on GRUB and checking out svn branches, then I think it's fine to require them to have Ruby. For released tarballs that we exp

Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

2008-08-05 Thread Marco Gerards
Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marco Gerards wrote: >> Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I think we should remove conf/*.mk from the Subversion repository. If >>> people are going to be developing on GRUB and checking out svn >>> branches, then I think it's fine to

Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.08.2008, 17:48 +0200 schrieb Marco Gerards: > > Actually, since ruby is required to generate these files, I guess we > can better keep the .mk files. > Just a little note from me: The Debian package build depends already on ruby so this won't be a problem for all Debian guy

Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk

2008-08-05 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every > > time. One of the reasons is that the sparc64 support is very > > out-of-date and doesn't use common.rmk at all. I cannot even test it > > (well, I haven't trie

Re: [PATCH] Drivemap module

2008-08-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:10:25 +0200 Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides, sometimes checks like "if (a=b)", or more > frequently "if (a=f())" are intentionally used in C, so the error > might become even more difficult to spot and correct. Respect and heed the gcc warnings!! Note th

Re: [PATCH] Drivemap module

2008-08-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:23:11 +0200 Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Javier, > > Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > While tools like `svn diff' can help in these kind of problems, > > their utility is greatly diminished if the offending change is part > > of a multi-line ch

Re: grub-probe detects ext4 wronly as ext2

2008-08-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Freitag, den 04.07.2008, 03:20 +0200 schrieb Javier Martín: > That was it. I will post no more in this thread. Do whatever you please > with the patch - I'll just request some more people from the GRUB dev > team to review the thing, instead of the tennis match we've had here > (and I appreciat

Re: [PATCH] Misc patches for grub2

2008-08-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:14:37 +0800 Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > For some reason I have some doubts about lib/. But I do not have a > > better name in mind either. What does belong in there? Do you > > happen to h

Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

2008-08-05 Thread Javier Martín
El mar, 05-08-2008 a las 17:48 +0200, Marco Gerards escribió: > Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Marco Gerards wrote: > >> Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I think we should remove conf/*.mk from the Subversion repository. If > >>> people are going to be develo

Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

2008-08-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:41:53 +0200 Javier Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El mar, 05-08-2008 a las 17:48 +0200, Marco Gerards escribió: > > Vesa Jääskeläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Marco Gerards wrote: > > >> Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>> I think we should

Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > > > I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every > > > time. One of the reasons is that the sparc64 support is very > > > out-of-date and doesn't

Re: [PATCH] update-grub for Cygwin

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:13:43PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > > >Why not have the user write a custom entry then? I think it clutters the > >user interface to add options for everything. If a corner case (boot a non > >native disk, can't use os-prober) can be supported by creating a new c

Re: [PATCH] Misc patches for grub2

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:36:06PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > > > The name appleloader may be a little confusing, bootcamp seems to be a > > better choice. > > How about legacyloader or even legacy? Legacy is ambigous. Does it mean BIOS? msdos partmap? Or perhaps EFI? -- Robert Millan

Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 07:42:29AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > We could make it a 'configure' option like '--enable-debug' or > something, but it seems like minimal overhead to generate the .elf > files for gdb in addition to "real" GRUB files. I'd favour the --enable-debug. Even if it's a

Re: [PATCH] High resolution time/TSC patch v3

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:59:28PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Hi Colin, > > Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Another updated TSC patch. Now it detects TSC support for x86 CPUs at > > runtime and selects either the TSC or RTC time source. This way 386 > > and 486 CPUs without

Seeking for the start

2008-08-05 Thread administrador02032
Hi: I am new. You know. I have around two months studying grub. But I feel myself lost. I understand the structure and the language. But I do not have a start ( except boot's module ). What I want to know in general terms is : General characteristics of the kernel. (It was maded in order to do w

Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

2008-08-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:14:03 +0200 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 07:42:29AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > > We could make it a 'configure' option like '--enable-debug' or > > something, but it seems like minimal overhead to generate the .elf > > files for

Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk

2008-08-05 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:07 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > > > > > I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every > > > > time. One of the reasons

Re: [PATCH][RFC] gdb support in GRUB build system

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:50:21PM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:14:03 +0200 > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 07:42:29AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > > > > We could make it a 'configure' option like '--enable-debug' or > > > s

grub-ieee1275 on powerpc says "DEFAULT CATCH!" and then drops me into Open Firmware

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hey folks-- I'm trying to create a grub-based rescue USB stick for PowerPC machines. I've successfully gotten one machine to boot to this device, and grub can see both the USB disk itself and the onboard (ide) HD. However, when i try to load a linux kernel from either disk, i get an error: grub

[PATCH] use grub_get_time_ms() instead of grub_get_rtc()

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
This replaces usage of grub_get_rtc() with grub_get_time_ms() in a few places throurough the code. Aside from the gained precision, it also permits that functionality to work on Coreboot. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you m

Re: [PATCH] power management on coreboot

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
Committed. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." ___

Re: Remove conf/*.mk from svn

2008-08-05 Thread Viswesh S
Hi, I have a small suggestion. Why cant we document in a small file, the procedures, or the dont's while adding modules or modifying grub2.A FAQ file may be. That will help us in the long run. Viswesh - Original Message From: Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: The development of GRUB

`initrd' grub2's mods or not

2008-08-05 Thread Albert
hi all, i have an idea about loading grub2' file (.mod, fonts, images) from disk: since core.img is the kernel why not make related stuffs into a 'initrd' file? the reason is, so many files will be loaded from media, we may need more time to do this from a cd/dvd. is there any possible

Re: `initrd' grub2's mods or not

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i have an idea about loading grub2' file (.mod, fonts, images) from > disk: since core.img is the kernel why not make related stuffs into a > 'initrd' file? the reason is, so many files will be loaded from media, w

Re: [PATCH] PXE support for grub2

2008-08-05 Thread Bean
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fixed and committed. Fixed a few bugs, also add some doc in the wiki for pxe boot: http://grub.enbug.org/PXEBOOT -- Bean ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.g