[PATCH] Skip tests if tool/dependency is not installed

Currently many tests ends up in an ERROR state due to the environment not having relevant tools, majorly being due to different file systems. For example before this patch the ntfs test fails with the following error: mkfs.ntfs not installed; cannot test ntfs. ERROR ntfs_test (exit status

[PATCH] Revert "templates: Reinstate unused version comparison functions with warning"

We reinstated these functions before the 2.12 release with a warning such that users upgrading to 2.12 who had custom scripts using them would not get broken in the upgrade, and agreed to remove them after the 2.12 release. This removes them accordingly. This reverts commit e7a831963e30c6d9c61027a

Re: State of Argon2 support

I want to share a small update: I'm reading the GRUB source code for the memory manager to get a bit acclimated. I was surprised to see libgcrypt depend on . Asking around, the monocypher library was brought to my attention, . No external dependencies, the license is comp

Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] disk: increase sector size up to 127 for LBA reads

Increase the value from 63 to speed up reading process. This commit increases two limits: the low-level int 13h reading code and a high-level reading code with disk cache. The disk cache imposes an overall limitation of a higher-layer reading code. The original comment regarding 16K is incorrect,

Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] disk: increase sector size up to 127 for LBA reads

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