Possible improvements to build system

2009-02-28 Thread phcoder
Hello, I noticed that updating some pieces of code needs modification of nearly all *.rmk. IMO it's bad thing because e.g. it easily brings different architectures out of sync. My improvement propositions: 1. normal.mod There is one part which is CPU-dependent - setjmp.S. t's used only in static

Re: Possible improvements to build system

2009-02-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:14:26PM +0100, phcoder wrote: > 2. ata.mod, hdparm.mod, ata_pthru.mod, usbms.mod, ohci.mod, uhci.mod, > usbtest.mod, usb.mod, memdisk.mod > I don't see why these modules are in i386-pc.rmk and not in common.rmk This is because nobody implemented grub_in* and grub_out*

Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09

2009-02-28 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: Seems nice. Would you be willing to write a summary for these? Then we could add it to grub-soc.html. Where is this file? Here is elaborated list: HID: -bluetooth keyboard Often BIOS lacks bluetooth support completely. This means that if someone uses bluetooth keyboard he

Set an LVM volume as default root device

2009-02-28 Thread Aesir
Hi everyone, while discovering the beauties of grub2 I'm trying to get a working setup with /boot partition on LVM. Unfortunately until now to boot this system I had to set root device and prefix "by hand" from the rescue shell. In fact, while the working values should be root (vg0-boot) prefi

Re: [PATCH] implement grub_millisleep in util/misc.c for grub-emu

2009-02-28 Thread Christian Franke
Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote: --- util/misc.c (revision 1996) +++ util/misc.c (working copy) @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ #include #include +#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309L +#include I'm not sure this is garanteed to work unless it's d

Re: [PATCH] implement grub_millisleep in util/misc.c for grub-emu

2009-02-28 Thread Christian Franke
Christian Franke wrote: There is no warning, because none of the headers define _POSIX_C_SOURCE. This should read: There is a warning, because features.h defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE :-) -- Christian Franke ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.

Re: Where?

2009-02-28 Thread BandiPat
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:01:42PM -0500, BandiPat wrote: Hey guys, where does it specify the initial screen border title? (GNU GRUB version 1.96) I would at least like to change that for the Zenwalk build, if that's ok? I've looked in several pieces of the code, but can

Re: Interesting GSoC project ideas for 09

2009-02-28 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 12:54 +0100, phcoder wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > Seems nice. Would you be willing to write a summary for these? Then we > > could add it to grub-soc.html. > Where is this file? > Here is elaborated list: In my opinion, matching all features of GRUB 1 on i386-pc should