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>
>
> the exit of "readelf -a" is showed in attachment readelf.txt
>
> If you could help me, I will appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
> Best regards.
> Abranches, Manoel R.
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> From: Manoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: The development of GRUB 2
> Subject: Re: PPC64
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:43:25 -0200
>
> Hi Hollis,
>
> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 14:32 -0500, Hollis Blanchar
ur hard disk
to another system where devices have different Open Firmware paths and
aliases. Another big pain point is building bootable CDs, since these
also unfortunately cannot make assumptions about the Open Firmware
devices available.
Just put all the files in the same directory on a real
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 01:25 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On IBM POWER servers, there is no HFS partition at all. Instead, there
> > is a "raw" partition onto which you dd an ELF file. Firmware loads the
> >
u can see that load-base is set to 0x4000 in
that code. Since your text starts at 0x1, that means your binary can
be at most 0xc000 bytes (48KB) large before it overlaps the text area.
That isn't necessarily a problem; firmware is probably using memmove()
(which handles overlapping areas) to l
Traditionally, firmware has refused to load an ELF file without a NOTE
segment. I feel like I heard that actually changed recently (maybe in
the p5 timeframe), but I never investigated further. You could easily
test by running grub-mkimage without the -n switch.
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at gcc manpages).
>
> My doubt is where is the best place to put this flag so that it will be
> passed to all gcc calls by default?
You don't want it on all gcc calls; you only want it when building the
modules.
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the GRUB heap capped at 4MB (I don't mean size, I mean the end of the heap).
So how are your modules appearing in memory above 32MB?
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Turns out the `ls' module was omitted from PPC's module list. Once I
added it, I found it needs one more libgcc export.
-Hollis
2005-02-13 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk (pkgdata_MODULES): Add ls.mod.
* include/grub/powerpc/li
While working on setting prefix correctly, I found it useful to have the
`configfile' command like GRUB Legacy.
I haven't tested on i386. I'm not sure about the `nested' parameter to
grub_normal_execute, but this code seems to be working fine.
2005-02-13 Hollis Blanchar
is another supported OF platform.
I have verified that this works (a config file is loaded) from disk, and
netbooting is not broken. The subdirectory stuff works as well.
-Hollis
2005-02-13 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* include/grub/powerpc/iee
On Feb 13, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
When this is called from normal mode, by running a command this means
that another normal mode will be started again. If you run this
command a few times, you would see a lot normal modes running when
examining the stack, right?
Hmm, I think you'r
On Feb 13, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This code sets the GRUB "prefix" environment variable from the OF
/chosen/bootpath property. It must therefore translate between the two
syntaxes.
Personally I don't like setti
On Feb 13, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Serbinenko Vladimir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
What kind of parser is it?
It's a direct parser with aritmetic subparser. Main parser is
grub_bash_execute, arithmetic subparser is grub_bash_eval_arith.
grub_bash_execute determinates the special cas
On Feb 14, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
2) HFS has a concept called "blessed"; basically the firmware can
automatically find and boot blessed executables without needing to
specify a file name or even partition. Some ve
On Feb 14, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
Currently, GRUB 2 uses grub.cfg as the name of a default config file. I
chose this, according to a private discussion between me and Jeremy
Katz. He pointed out that the user did not find a config file if it was
menu.lst, because he/she simply
.
- since grub_machine_fini isn't called yet, I haven't yet figured out
how to release the memory indicated in the comments.
OK?
-Hollis
2005-02-19 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* commands/ieee1275/halt.c (grub_cmd_halt): Call grub_halt.
Move file...
On Feb 15, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Ok. But the file does not need to be blessed to boot from it. It's
just used so the user can use:
boot hd,0
instead of:
boot hd,0:grubof
To me the second sounds good enough. Or does that cause other
problems?
Remember that resetting the PRAM (a
On Feb 20, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Sunday 20 February 2005 00:34, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
- grub_reboot and grub_halt in util/i386/pc/misc.c are not
architecture-specific, so have been moved to util/grub-emu.c.
grub_halt is clearly arch-specific. Look at the definition
On Feb 21, 2005, at 3:58 AM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
I just wanted to compile grub2/cvs, but configure fails:
[10:31] ei:grub2% ./configure --prefix=/usr/packages/grub2 && make
[...]
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... configure:
error
On Feb 21, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
Here is the dprintf function I worked on 2 weeks ago, which I fixed
this
evening.
Your mailer did some bad stuff to this patch again...
Index: kern/misc.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/gr
On Feb 20, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
If a user installs GRUB now with this bootargs patch, then later if we
wish to add a debug option with "fancy parser" they will no longer be
able to boot, as the syntax will change.
Now: "boot grubof hd0,6"
Later: "boot grubof prefix=hd0,6 debug=al
On Feb 21, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
+static void
+grub_set_prefix (void)
+{
+ char bootpath[64]; /* XXX check length */
You could get the property length and use that. It would be clearer.
All these stack-based get_property calls are an accident waiting to
happen, but you've advoc
On Feb 24, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Thursday 24 February 2005 09:02, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
Iirc there were differences of point of view on that matter.
Okuji, what do you think about that idea ?
What I said was that you should use strings instead of bit fields.
[...]
Here y
On Feb 25, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
grub_strword (string, word) : searches for word (a serie of
non-word-separators eventualy ended by word-separators) in string (a
succession of 0 or more words which can begin by word-separator(s))
grub_strword looks a little overcomplicated; wou
On Feb 25, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Aki Tossavainen wrote:
Um, well, it does a lot of unnecessary expensive strcmp's there...
But if you add this, you can at least reduce them abit, since you are
only
interested on the words.
Oops, yes, thanks. :)
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Here I did not combine i386 and PPC halt/reboot as I did in my original
patch.
-Hollis
2005-03-23 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* commands/ieee1275/halt.c (grub_cmd_halt): Call grub_halt
instead of grub_ieee1275_interpret.
(grub_halt_init
On Mar 24, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
(grub_halt_init): New function.
(grub_halt_fini): Likewise.
Why do you need this?
(grub_reboot_init): New function.
(grub_reboot_fini): Likewise.
Same here.
Because
I've been thinking about how to install grub2 on an Open Firmware
system. Here's one possibility:
/boot -- Linux-native filesystem (e.g. ext3)
holds kernels, initrd, etc
/boot/grub -- firmware-native filesystem (on Mac HFS+, on others FAT,
etc)
holds grub executable, grub.cfg, modules
The
On Apr 5, 2005, at 2:00 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The other possibility is to have all of /boot as a firmware-native
filesystem. I think that's not ideal though, because those filesystems
(HFS+, FAT) might not support features like symlinks or
On Apr 4, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Vernon Mauery wrote:
Hollis Blanchard wrote:
I've been thinking about how to install grub2 on an Open Firmware
system. Here's one possibility:
/boot -- Linux-native filesystem (e.g. ext3)
holds kernels, initrd, etc
/boot/grub -- firmw
On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:41 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 02:38 am, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
Can we have a shortcut to avoid specifying that "(hd,7)/" part
repeatedly? I think that was the "root" command in GRUB Legacy, which
was replaced by the "pre
On Apr 5, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Vernon Mauery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Putting a restraint that says /boot/grub must be a separate
partition doesn't sound like a good idea. It just clutters the
partition table with another small partition.
For the apple this was always the case
I've added a TestingOnPowerPC page to the wiki:
http://www.autistici.org/grub/moin.cgi/TestingOnPowerPC . I hope it's
enough information (including sample grub.cfg) to get curious hackers
to try it out...
Maybe we should add the wiki to
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-support.en.html ?
On Apr 5, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
root is not a command but a variable in GRUB 2.
Actually, I see now that it is a command: grub_rescue_cmd_root() in
kern/rescue.c. Is that only a rescue mode thing? That seems to be
exactly what
On Apr 6, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perhaps using "grubroot", "grubprefix", "grubbase", or similar will be
acceptable?
For me it is, of course, open or discussion. However, I just like
`root'. I do
On Apr 6, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Antoine Terrienne wrote:
Selon Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Okuji? Hmm, what about "device"?
title foo
set device=bar
multiboot /kernel root=baz
I would like to avoid this:
title foo
On Feb 15, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I added a new function grub_machine_fini which is an arch-specific
function. This function is not called automatically, and used only for
grub-emu at the moment. I implemented this function for grub-e
Marco, can you remind me why we stopped assigning our own stack on PPC?
I seem to recall something failing, but I don't remember what.
I've found that some things work better when we use our own stack. For
example, running "suspend" does not spew a bunch of OF messages to the
screen, but rather
Thanks very much for your report, Nico! (Note to others: I have updated
the PPC wiki info based on some IRC questions from Nico.)
On Apr 7, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
2. The second thing which is a bit ugly is that grub2 lists
(hd) (hd,...) _AND_ (ultra0) (ultra0,...)
whi
On Apr 7, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marco, can you remind me why we stopped assigning our own stack on
PPC? I seem to recall something failing, but I don't remember what.
IIRC it was because OF supplies a stack anyway and becau
On Apr 8, 2005, at 7:20 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Nico -telmich- Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This is only the case when using rescue mode, right? IIRC normal
code
clears the screen before showing the welcome message.
"I don't know".
All what I did was loaded grubof.modules from hd,3. T
On Apr 10, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Johan, Hollis, this patch touches some of your files. It would be
nice if both of you could have a quick look at this patch. :)
From a quick skim, it looks fine to me.
-Hollis
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2005-02-13 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/ieee1275.h
(grub_ieee1275_get_dev_encoding): New prototype.
(grub_ieee1275_get_filename): Likewise.
* kern/powerpc/ieee1275/init.c (grub_translate_ieee175
On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
grub_strword ("filesystem", "file") returns 0 in your implementation.
If I write this function, I use grub_strstr and check if the previous
character and the next character are boundaries.
This is a very good idea. The standalone testcase belo
On Apr 8, 2005, at 1:39 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
This should not be the case. Not if both tab, ls, linux, etc work
from pwd. In that case you can cd somewhere and everything you use
is
in the current dir. And there are relative (../foo) and absol
On Apr 14, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
+ unsigned int partno = grub_strtoul (partition, 0, 0);
+ partno--; /* GRUB partition numbering is 0-based. */
Right. But how can you be sure both match?
Eh? OF partition numbers are 1-based. To convert to GRUB's 0-based
numbering, we s
On Apr 17, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
If GRUB counts partition numbers different than Open Firmware, I
consider this a bug that must be fixed. 0-based partition numbers are
quite confusing enough.
And I do not consider that a bug.
Updated patch which uses devaliases.
-Hollis
2005-04-17 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/ieee1275.h
(grub_ieee1275_encode_devname): New prototype.
(grub_ieee1275_get_filename): Likewise.
* kern/powerpc/ieee1275/
On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
When booting on the pegasosII I see the following problem:
grub> set
prefix=(/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0,3)
That is when I am booting using `boot hd:4 grub)'.
The prefix contains an OF device name which will not work i
On Apr 17, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Updated patch which uses devaliases.
On my pegasos the devalias is looked up perfectly for both ethernet
and the harddisk. :)
+ if (partition)
+{
+ unsigned int partno = grub_strtoul (par
I've tested the patch on briQ. As far as I can tell, CodeGen's
"SmartFirmware" is crap, frequently suffering mysterious failures that
require unplugging and waiting (unplugging and replugging rapidly isn't
enough). It also suffers frequent ATA failures, where the disk or
controller simply stop
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've tested the patch on briQ. As far as I can tell, CodeGen's
"SmartFirmware" is crap, frequently suffering mysterious failures that
require unplugging and waiting (unplugg
sights on include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/biosdisk.h. Any
suggestions on how to handle using util/i386/pc/biosdisk.c on PPC for
grub-emu?
-Hollis
2005-04-21 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* boot/powerpc/ieee1275/cmain.c: Don't include grub/machin
On Apr 14, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
Here is a clean diff with that new grub_strword version.
Thanks Vincent! I've just checked this in (with a slight tweak: needed
to add ## to the macro to allow passing no arguments).
Now what do we think of this patch? It adds output like this
I'd like to rename the PPC executable from "grubof" to "grub". If
nothing else, it will avoid the question "is it grubof.cfg or
grub.cfg?". Thoughts?
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If there are no comments I
will commit this patch in a couple days.
-Hollis
2005-05-08 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* boot/powerpc/ieee1275/cmain.c (module_info): Remove struct.
* boot/powerpc/ieee1275/crt0.S (_start): Use init_stack.
* include/grub/powe
We're doing a lot of useless work in cmain().
Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline, overriding
the defaults. Example:
boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar
Comments?
-Hollis
Index: boot/powerpc/ieee1275/cmain.c
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inconsistent prototypes.
- we were initializing initrd_addr to 0xc000 even when we didn't
have one loaded.
I will resist the urge to keep growing this patch. ;)
-Hollis
2005-05-08 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* boot/powerpc/ieee1275/cmain.c (modul
On May 10, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
--- include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/kernel.h 4 Jan 2005 14:01:45
- 1.1
+++ include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/kernel.h 10 May 2005 01:27:36 -
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@
#define GRUB_KERNEL_MACHINE_HE
On May 10, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Paul Nasrat wrote:
Ignore the Default catch that seems to be resolved for me.
Hmm, if you have any ideas, I'd still like to know how you got that
error... Experimental toolchain?
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On May 10, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Paul Nasrat wrote:
Loading ELF
method not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method
not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method
not found; ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method not found;
ihandle=ffbc6f80 phandle=ff848300 method not found;
ihandle=
On May 10, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline,
overriding
the defaults. Example:
boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar
This looks like a nice feature to me, especial
On May 13, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Mon, May 09, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
Also, this patch allows you to boot from the OF commandline,
overriding
the defaults. Example:
boot enet:,grubof prefix=foo; debug=bar
Can one override essential parts of grub that way?
Like loading a
On May 13, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Scott Becker wrote:
On the two servers I've installed RHEL 4 on, I've had trouble with
grub. It's the combination of grub and the new I2O_block driver. I
suspect the grub patch to support I2O is lacking.
Are you referring to a particular patch?
I was wondering if Grub
Hi!
On May 25, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Maurizio Boriani wrote:
I tried grub2 on my ppc (apple iBook g3) but I don't
like to change openfw boot-device var every time (I use
the same laptop for my daily stuff) as suggested in
grub wiki.
So written a CHRP script which permit to choose
yaboot or GRUB2,
There aren't any functional changes with this patch, just some cleanups
and consolidation. Some of this I already posted and was commented on.
Some is new (like grub_ieee1275_chosen).
2005-05-08 Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* boot/powerpc/ieee1275/cmain.c (module_in
On May 26, 2005, at 2:26 AM, Maurizio Boriani wrote:
Also what about multiboot specification support in grub2? Is
available (on ppc and ia32)? If not why ? :)
Marco> Not yet on the PPC. This is something I'd like to work on
Marco> during my summer holidays.
ok :)
Has anybody look
Attached is the first 4 sectors of the Ubuntu PowerPC Hoary CD. It has
2 partition map entries, including the partition map itself. GRUB2
lists 8 partitions. Anybody want to take a look? It could be written to
a floppy or zip or CD I guess... If nobody gets to it I will try to
debug later.
-H
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On Jun 21, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Paul Nasrat wrote:
file -k ubuntu-powerepc_hoary
ubuntu_powerpc_hoary: x86 boot sector\012- Apple Partition data block
Ah, right! It also has a DOS map... this explains why the debug prints
I had in partmap/apple.c were not displaying. It seems the problem may
be
Hmm, no idea what happened to the first mail.
Debugging a partition map bug, I was adding more grub_dprintf messages...
and re-discovered that our printf doesn't handle e.g. "%lx" format strings (yet
gcc requires these when printing longs).
This patch works for me, though I didn't check that it i
On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Debugging a partition map bug, I was adding more grub_dprintf
messages...
and re-discovered that our printf doesn't handle e.g. "%lx" format
strings (yet
gcc requires thes
On Jun 22, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
I went through the steps with configure and make and install into a
prefix of ~/pkgs/local with the end result being :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pkgs/local$ find . -ls
1959654 drwxr-xr-x 5 dclarke users4096 Jun 21 18:13 .
1959664 d
On Jun 22, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Do you intend for Open Solaris to use multiboot, or the Linux loader,
or write a custom loader for it?
Solaris? Multiboot? What did I miss?
Blastwave.org is the Open Solaris community s
On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
You can always use the raw disk, in which case it will be detected as
iso9660. So in this case:
foo (cd)/
instead of:
foo (cd,0)/
I assume you're implying tab-completion here. I just want a command to
list all partitions on the CD. It seems
pe that as other people successfully debug other areas (like
"partition"), they will add more dprintf statements to facilitate future
remote debugging, because you know we're going to have a lot of it. :)
If this is acceptable I will check it in.
-Hollis
2005-06-23 Hollis Bla
I did some hacking on a multiboot loader for PPC last night. I wasn't
trying to properly update the multiboot spec for non-x86 architectures,
but rather just use the existing structures and code.
I've also attached a "hello world" PPC multiboot client. I noticed the
top-level "hello" directory is
On Jun 27, 2005, at 3:40 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Jun 21, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
You can always use the raw disk, in which case it will be detected as
iso9660. So in this case:
foo (cd)/
instead of:
foo (cd,0)/
I
On Jun 29, 2005, at 6:33 AM, Rodrigo Steinmüller Wanderley wrote:
I'm reading grub2 commands in order to understand the syntax to add new
builtins into it. When reading the cmp commands I found some points I
couldn't understand, think they are bugs, but maybe some of you guys
can
prove me wro
On Jul 1, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
Marco Gerards wrote:
I think it is not possible for us to use syslinux/isolinux code I
think. For GRUB the copyrights need to be assigned to the FSF before
a patch can be applied.
!?!?!?
There's no such requirement in the GNU GPL ! (and sysl
On Jul 9, 2005, at 12:19 AM, Cyril Plisko wrote:
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Friday 08 July 2005 08:57, James Buchanan wrote:
I'd be glad to help if I can. I'm working on some GRUB-2 code at the
moment, studying it and trying to figure out some video card stuff.
I think we need to list up wh
On Jul 12, 2005, at 8:41 AM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
Marco Gerards wrote:
So with this change all problems are fixed? In that case this patch
needs to be committed.
No I can read files from an ext2 partition on sparc64.
What's the next step ? :) Loading modules ? I don't know exactly how to
On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
Hi.
Here are the diffs powerpc -> usparc, with some comments below.
To be used to know which files can be made common.
I will see about moving the easily shared files.
boot:
cmain renamed in _start (no asm).
Sparc will need to provide it
On Jul 13, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
Marco Gerards wrote:
For which reason?
But if it should be more precise, it should be a grub_uint64_t.
If the architecture give us a 32 bit number, we won't invent the
remaining 32 bits...
We don't invent them; they are 0.
-Hollis
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On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:55 AM, Marco Gerards wrote:
I will note that one related file is still left:
kern/powerpc/ieee1275/openfw.c. That file contains some
PowerPC-specific code, such as grub_map, grub_reboot, and
grub_halt. However, it also contains code that I think will be
generally useful, suc
On Jul 16, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Vincent Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Reboot is "reset-all" too, and shutdown is "power-off" (from OB v3
documentation). Tested on U1, U10, Sun blade 150.
Maybe could these be set with #define.
It should be detected run-time, I think.
On Apr 10, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
At the moment I am compiling GRUB on one PPC system and running it on
another. At the moment this is very unproductive for me and making it
hard, if not impossible, to do any testing. So I set up a
cross-compiler so I can compile GRUB 2 for the
On Jul 17, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
I am looking
forwards to the release. It would be nice if we could get a
kerneltrap article, it could attract more developers. :)
I would be interested in this myself. I do not know the history of GRUB
development: How many people were active
On Jul 17, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
If there is no objection, I'd like to release the first version of
GRUB 2 for
developers at the beginning of August, whatever status it is in. At the
moment, I'm devoting myself into bugfixes and incorporation of
workarounds
from GRUB L
On Jul 16, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Ruslan Nikolaev wrote:
Ok patch for x86_64 ELF64 support was rewritten.
diff -urN old/multiboot.c new/multiboot.c
--- old/multiboot.c 2005-07-17 02:50:11.978394408 +0400
+++ new/multiboot.c 2005-07-17 02:49:41.069093336 +0400
@@ -89,7 +89,14 @@
struct gru
On Jul 18, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I did update the patch slightly (attached). If this is acceptable,
please check in the patch for me, as I will be travelling for a couple
weeks and it will be difficult to work on GRUB durin
On Jul 19, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
ChangeLog:
Added support for X86_64 ELF64:
1. Using ELF64 headers when ELF class is 64-bit.
2. Algorigthm is the same as for ELF32 + several validating:
- separate code for validating ELF64 header
- checking that entry_point is less th
On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
I have mostly implemented grub-install as a shell script. I just
copied it
from GRUB Legacy then adapted it to GRUB 2. This script is much
simpler in
GRUB 2, because grub-setup handles most things.
Great! This is something we still need t
On Jul 25, 2005, at 6:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Monday 25 July 2005 04:04, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
Is there a reason not to add all modules all the time?
I should have written more info in English. This is documented well,
but only in Japanese.
There are
On Jul 13, 2005, at 4:59 PM, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
Index: kern/dl.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub2/kern/dl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -p -r1.10 dl.c
--- kern/dl.c 14 Feb 2005 18:41:33 - 1.10
+++ kern/dl.c
On Aug 4, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Marco Gerards wrote:
Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Vincent Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Vincent,
Finally I had the time and energy to both proofread and test your
patch. It did work for me after making some changes.
I have committed your
On Aug 7, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.90.
I'm disappointed that you chose to announce GRUB 1.90 after knowingly
breaking the PPC build.
I have fixed the build.
-Hollis
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On Aug 7, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Saturday 06 August 2005 17:04, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
Hollis put ieee1275.c under the directory kern directly, and I don't
feel
comfortable with this. Even if that file is shared by multiple cpu
types,
it is still arch-dependent.
I'
On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 05:21, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
On Aug 7, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
I'm happy to announce the release of GRUB 1.90.
I'm disappointed that you chose to announce GRUB 1.90 after
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