On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:01:44PM +0200, Marcin Kurek wrote: > Hell[o] > > > When GRUB starts initial_context is in an unknown state. This can lead to > > GRUB detecting bogus variables from it. Attached patch zeroes that struct > > during initialisation to avoid that. > > This change broken command line argument handling for ieee1275. > Arguments are read by grub_machine_init() in this case and zeroing is > done just after that. > > I guess it should be placed before grub_machine_init() to avoid this problem.
Uhm.. Marco pointed out that it's in the ELF standard that memory is zeroed before load. So there isn't really a problem, and my issue was just found in an inconsistent situation when playing with LB self-boot. Let's kill this thread. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
