Re: Cross-compilation check broken

2009-01-29 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello, Robert! > > Your commit 1955 breaks my script for testing PowerPC. That's the > script: > > #!/bin/sh > set -e > CROSS_PATH=/home/proski/src/buildroot/build_powerpc/staging_dir/usr/bin > PATH=$CROSS_PATH:$PATH > ./configure -

Move BSD and multiboot boot helper out of the kernel to their respective modules

2009-01-29 Thread phcoder
Hello, I was looking through the code and have seen that bsd and multiboot code uses helpers in the kernel. In this patch I propose to move these function to their respective modules Thanks Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Index: conf/i386-pc.rmk =

Re: State of GRUB on PowerPC

2009-01-29 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 21:57 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 08:19 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > I was able to reproduce Jordi's findings on my PowerBook G4. (Well, > > except device.map seems to get generated correctly and the search > > command seems to work for me, maybe this

Re: Cross-compilation check broken

2009-01-29 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 14:07 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > This check looks really confusing. I naively assumed it was checking if we're > cross-compiling like the comment said ;-) I agree, the comment is misleading. We actually check for the second set of tools there, which is used to build fil

The ponderings of a newbie

2009-01-29 Thread Jay Sullivan
Hi everyone I have a few questions about different things. Just so everyone can understand me better, allow me to describe my relation to this project. I am an C and x86 ASM programmer. I'm very interested in contributing to GRUB2, and I've been trying to understand it for a while, but there are

Re: The ponderings of a newbie

2009-01-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Jay Sullivan wrote: > 1) Mailing lists: > > I'm wanting to avoid asking questions that have already been answered, and > I'd like to keep up on current issues with grub2, so I'd like to try to keep > the grub-devel mailing list sorted...but I'm clueless. > First of all, is it strange of me to ask,

Re: The ponderings of a newbie

2009-01-29 Thread n0ano
I'm old school: fetchmail: to get the mail. procmail: to separate lists into individula folders. mutt: to read the mail, it uses threaded mode by default. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:57PM +0200, Vesa J??skel?inen wrote: > Jay Sullivan wrote: > > 1) Mailing lists: > > > > I'm wanting to avoid

Re: The ponderings of a newbie

2009-01-29 Thread step21
google mail and a filter to label each mailing list seperately, normally related messages are kept together in a "conversation" On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Jay Sullivan wrote: >> 1) Mailing lists: >> >> I'm wanting to avoid asking questions that have already bee

Implementing commands from TODO list

2009-01-29 Thread Bandan
First thing's first; I finally realized while getting my daily dose of grub2 that I had unintentionally tried to post my message in a wrong thread here : http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-01/msg00157.html It was very careless on my part and I sincerely apologize for the noise (

Re: Implementing commands from TODO list

2009-01-29 Thread phcoder
Bandan wrote: (sorry phcoder and Vesa Jääskeläinen ! ). NP Personally, I would like to start with "uppermem" as I have already gone through the relevant code and it will be easier for me to start with it. Uppermem is i386-bound. I propose more general format: meminfo [-l] [-s VAR] Which outpu