Grub2 usability [Was: Simplified Chinese screenshots]

2010-02-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 3 February 2010 04:42, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:36:40PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Feb/01/2010, Chris Jones wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:32:14PM EST, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: >> > > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Aron Xu sent me some screen

Re: [RFC] Framebuffer rotation patch

2010-02-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
2010/2/11 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Hello >> >> Sending a preliminary framebuffer rotation patch. >> >> You can use videotest to see 4 tiles rotated from the same bitmap data. >> >> > +char leaf_data[] = { 0x00, 0x0f, 0xe0, 0x00, > +                     0x0

Re: [RFC] Framebuffer rotation patch

2010-02-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 11 February 2010 11:19, Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2010/2/11 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> Sending a preliminary framebuffer rotation patch. >>> >>> You can use videotest to see 4 tiles rotated from the same bitmap data. >>> >>> >> +char leaf_

Re: Grub2 usability [Was: Simplified Chinese screenshots]

2010-02-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:36:04AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > I haven't read those FUDs but it's completely true that it's much more > likely to get your box hosed if you install grub2 than any other boot > loader I tried so far. > > There has been no issue with grub legacy for ages (probably

[patch] GRUB possible patches

2010-02-11 Thread George Buranov
Hello eveybody. I am currently start investigation (and fixing the things that don't work for me =)) So, I got two for today, one is fix, and one is morelike a question, I am more than sure it's my mistake. What's the correct way of applying patches to grub2? Am I correct that all I need is to p

Re: Antialiased fonts patch.

2010-02-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 26 January 2010 11:04, Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: > Hi, > >> At first I was completely against antialiasing support because of >> performance impact. But it being optional decreases the later. However >> there is one problem: your patch relies on text_layer to be RGBA >> which was a mistake.

Re: [PATCH] a new filessytem module for nilfs2

2010-02-11 Thread Jiro SEKIBA
Hi, At Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:31:35 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > Jiro SEKIBA wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is a patch to support nilfs2 filesystem. > > I would like you to review the patch. > > > > I've checked with revno 2153 and kvm(qemu) environment. > > > > Also the patc

Re: [patch] GRUB possible patches

2010-02-11 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
George Buranov wrote: > Hello eveybody. > > I am currently start investigation (and fixing the things that don't > work for me =)) > > So, I got two for today, one is fix, and one is morelike a question, I > am more than sure it's my mistake. > > What's the correct way of applying patches to grub2?

Re: [RFC] Framebuffer rotation patch

2010-02-11 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2010/2/11 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > >> Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> Sending a preliminary framebuffer rotation patch. >>> >>> You can use videotest to see 4 tiles rotated from the same bitmap data. >>> >>> >>> >> +char leaf_data

Re: [RFC] Framebuffer rotation patch

2010-02-11 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 11 February 2010 11:19, Michal Suchanek wrote: > >> 2010/2/11 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : >> >>> Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> Hello Sending a preliminary framebuffer rotation patch. You can use videotest to see 4 tiles r

[PATCH] delete and backspace; unimplemented keys

2010-02-11 Thread Manoel Rebelo Abraches
Hello. We have made those simple patches to fix some problems with unimplemented keys in ieee1275 terminals. The first patch (ofconsole_keys) implements the "backspace" and "delete" keys. The second one (ofconsole_unimplemented_keys) will clean the buffer of unknown keys and prevent garbage to show

Re: [PATCH] Fix for eating last char in menuentry

2010-02-11 Thread BVK Chaitanya
This is committed into experimental (and also in branches/lexer-rewrite). -- bvk.chaitanya ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Antialiased fonts patch.

2010-02-11 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 26 January 2010 11:04, Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> At first I was completely against antialiasing support because of >>> performance impact. But it being optional decreases the later. However >>> there is one problem: your pa

Re: Antialiased fonts patch.

2010-02-11 Thread Evgeny Kolesnikov
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 00:21 -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > On 26 January 2010 11:04, Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>> At first I was completely against antialiasing support because of > ... > > In fact I think that 4b

Re: Antialiased fonts patch.

2010-02-11 Thread Evgeny Kolesnikov
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 14:30 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 26 January 2010 11:04, Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: > > I use 8-bit in order to give GRUB ability to look and feel exactly > > as other parts of OS, so yes, 8 bits are required. If one can't allow > > Grub will never look and feel exactly

Re: Antialiased fonts patch.

2010-02-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: If we really care about speed we should use 1-bit fonts. Nothing can be faster. And 1-bit fonts will stay here. But if we care about eye-candy view, we should not throw away any bits from FT library result. This will not be fast enough to replace 1-bit fonts, and it wil

Re: Antialiased fonts patch.

2010-02-11 Thread Evgeny Kolesnikov
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 01:20 -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Evgeny Kolesnikov wrote: > > > If we really care about speed we should use 1-bit fonts. Nothing can be > > faster. And 1-bit fonts will stay here. > > > > But if we care about eye-candy view, we should not throw away any bits > > from FT lib