Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Bean
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 05:17:55PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think it could be beneficial to have a experimental branch for GRUB. >> Minor bug fixes can be applied to mainstream directly. But for big and >> intrusive changes, such as

Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

2009-10-23 Thread Bean
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Peter Cros wrote: > I don't know what is the testing status for pc machines, but I have > grub-install problem for platform pc on Apple with the current menu source. > > commit eb03e2575b2c0b1b4fd83f33a741f6fef3b93339 > Author: Bean > Date:   Wed Oct 21 01:11:27 2

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:06:02PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > Hi, > > I take a quick look at bazaar, it seems to be working fine. However, > if we are to use bazaar, I suggest we host the project at launchpad, > for several reasons: > > Launchpad have a nice web interface. > > Launchpad can build u

Re: Feature Request: 32-bit mem write and 'setpci -s' type command in menu.lst

2009-10-23 Thread Nando
Hi Vlad, Thank you for this! Just what I was looking for. With pciexbar I'll be able to do the equivalent of setpci by calculating the addresses needing memory writes. Another question - is there any "write_dump" sort of command where I can give an address, a file and it writes the binary data

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I've to go soon and can go in more detail later, but user branches work > fine. I put two of my local patchsets there just a few minutes ago, > check http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/people/robertmh/. > > I think building deb fro

Re: [PATCH] auto-generate libgcc.h

2009-10-23 Thread rubisher
Hello Vladimir, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: rubisher wrote: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Robert Millan wrote: This should be a much cleaner option than maintaining libgcc.h by hand. Only tested on sparc, but it should also cast out the build problems on powerpc. 1) Does

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Bean wrote: > Hi, > > I think it could be beneficial to have a experimental branch for GRUB. > Minor bug fixes can be applied to mainstream directly. But for big and > intrusive changes, such as the new menu system, we can place it in the > experimental branch first. Users interested in the latest

Re: bazaar mirror available

2009-10-23 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote: > Hi, > > As you may have noticed, a GNU Bazaar mirror of SVN trunk is now available. > It can be accessed via: > > bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk > > bzr branch sftp://@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/grub/trunk > > It'll be regularly resynced to latest S

Re: Feature Request: 32-bit mem write and 'setpci -s' type command in menu.lst

2009-10-23 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Nando wrote: > Hi Vlad, > > Thank you for this! Just what I was looking for. With pciexbar I'll be > able to do the equivalent of setpci by calculating the addresses > needing memory writes. Except pciconf space > > Another question - is there any "write_dump" sort of command where I > can give a

Re: Experimental branch for GRUB

2009-10-23 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> We might want to create a unified repo for grub and grub-extra. As > grub doesn't support external module building, split it in two parts > is not convenient for both developer and user. Therefore, we can > maintain an unified source tree in the experimental repo, and push > patch to the corres

Re: powerpc/sparc problems

2009-10-23 Thread rubisher
Bean wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:12 PM, rubisher wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:03 AM, rubisher wrote: Bean wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote: David are you still there? And also anyone who has access to a powerpc machine (and experience)? In Debian we the

Re: powerpc/sparc problems

2009-10-23 Thread Bean
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:34 AM, rubisher wrote: > Bean wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:12 PM, rubisher wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:03 AM, rubisher wrote: > > Bean wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Felix Zielcke wrote: >>> >>> David are y