Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-05 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/3, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Using GUID in GPT to locate the embedded zone would be good but it has > nothing to do with this standard. Robert made some work in this > direction but never finished (he wrote MBR but not some required changes > to diskboot.img) and nobody picke

gfxterm/pager regression

2010-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
gfxterm is behaving very oddly for me with 'set pager=1' right now; the --MORE-- prompt appears after only a few lines of text have been output. It looks rather as if it is counting the number of output characters as if they were the number of output lines. This doesn't happen when the terminal ou

[PATCH] Call background_image after terminal_output gfxterm

2010-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
GRUB_BACKGROUND doesn't work right now, as background_image only works after 'terminal_output gfxterm' has been called. I looked at lifting that restriction, but it seemed moderately complex to do so and it wasn't clear what the semantics ought to be if you tear down gfxterm and re-initialise it (

[PATCH] Rework vesafb/efifb handling in GRUB

2010-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
I've been looking once again at supporting relatively smooth visual transitions from GRUB to the kernel, which entails deploying 'set gfxpayload=keep' in Ubuntu (I've had it turned off for a while due to various reported problems of the black-screen type). I talked with Matthew Garrett (CCed), a L

Re: [PATCH] Call background_image after terminal_output gfxterm

2010-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 04:24:44PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > 2010-07-05 Colin Watson > > * util/grub.d/00_header.in: Process GRUB_THEME and GRUB_BACKGROUND > after setting gfxterm as the active terminal. GRUB_BACKGROUND > doesn't work otherwise. Slight tweak to fix output

Re: [Patch] Simple USB hub support

2010-07-05 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko píše v Po 28. 06. 2010 v 18:44 +0200: > On 06/20/2010 11:21 AM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > > Hi, > > > > included patch should make USB hubs operational. > > > > It works in the same simple way as whole GRUB2 USB support, i.e. USB hub > > and device must be connecte

Re: [Patch] USB UHCI portstatus correction

2010-07-05 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 06/26/2010 12:03 AM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > >> On 06/20/2010 11:23 AM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I found some mistake in uhci.c in grub_uhci_portstatus when enable=0. >

Re: USB Driver uhci.c legacy mode

2010-07-05 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
> On 07/02/2010 12:30 PM, jonatan perry wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am using grub2 uhci.c usb driver for testing new hardware, on some > > occuisions the UHCI signature test fails (can be found on the PCI > > iteration routine), the driver thest if the controller founded by PCI > > has a signature as

Re: USB Driver uhci.c legacy mode

2010-07-05 Thread jonatan perry
Hello Ales, Unfortunately, the discussed platform (Lenovo t410 laptop) includes no UHCI controller along with the EHCI, as well no BIOS USB 1.0 (UHCI) legacy support. as I understand from the EHCI specs there are several legacy registers, named USBLEGSUP and USBLEGCTLSTS, can I assists those regist

Re: USB Driver uhci.c legacy mode

2010-07-05 Thread Aleš Nesrsta
jonatan perry wrote: > Hello Ales, > Unfortunately, the discussed platform (Lenovo t410 laptop) includes no > UHCI controller along with the EHCI, as well no BIOS USB 1.0 (UHCI) > legacy support. > as I understand from the EHCI specs there are several legacy > registers, named USBLEGSUP and USBLEGC

grub.texi

2010-07-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
There are several problems in grub.texi. 1. There are several references to Multiboot using @pxref or @xref, but Multiboot is not a node within grub.texi. This causes a 404 on the website. @Section History of GRUB @section GRUB features (2 times) @subsection How to boot an OS directly with G

Re: [Patch] USB UHCI portstatus correction

2010-07-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/05/2010 07:12 PM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> On 06/26/2010 12:03 AM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: >> >>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >>> >>> On 06/20/2010 11:23 AM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Hi

Re: [Patch] Simple USB hub support

2010-07-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/05/2010 07:11 PM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko píše v Po 28. 06. 2010 v 18:44 > +0200: > >> On 06/20/2010 11:21 AM, Aleš Nesrsta wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> included patch should make USB hubs operational. >>> >>> It works in the same simple way as whole G

Re: [PATCH] Call background_image after terminal_output gfxterm

2010-07-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/05/2010 07:03 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 04:24:44PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >> 2010-07-05 Colin Watson >> >> * util/grub.d/00_header.in: Process GRUB_THEME and GRUB_BACKGROUND >> after setting gfxterm as the active terminal. GRUB_BACKGROUND >>

Re: gfxterm/pager regression

2010-07-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/05/2010 02:47 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > gfxterm is behaving very oddly for me with 'set pager=1' right now; the > --MORE-- prompt appears after only a few lines of text have been output. > It looks rather as if it is counting the number of output characters as > if they were the number of out

Re: [PATCH] Rework vesafb/efifb handling in GRUB

2010-07-05 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/05/2010 07:00 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > I've been looking once again at supporting relatively smooth visual > transitions from GRUB to the kernel, which entails deploying 'set > gfxpayload=keep' in Ubuntu (I've had it turned off for a while due to > various reported problems of the black-scre

[PATCH 1/2] config support for btrfs

2010-07-05 Thread Surbhi Palande
From: surbhi Signed-off-by: surbhi --- conf/common.rmk | 40 conf/i386-pc.rmk |4 ++-- conf/sparc64-ieee1275.rmk |5 ++--- 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) diff --git a/conf/common.rmk b/conf/common.rmk ind

[PATCH 0/2] btrfs-support for grub-2

2010-07-05 Thread Surbhi Palande
From: surbhi Hi All, I am attaching two patches along with this email for enabling btrfs support in grub2. Please note that the licensing for this patch needs to be sorted out as grub-2 is at GPL-v3 and btrfs support in the linux kernel is at GPL-v2. I have referred to the btrfs code in the ker

Re: [PATCH] Rework vesafb/efifb handling in GRUB

2010-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 02:16:07AM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 07/05/2010 07:00 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > Initially I was strongly advocating using efifb for this, since, hey, > > GRUB already uses it by default and labels it as > > GRUB_VIDEO_LINUX_TYPE_SIMPLE, so i