On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:44 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > OK, then I would suggest to (re)start with the small change for > grub-mkdevicemap. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-12/msg00179.html > > The patch is still current and already got positive feedback from Marco > and Robert. > I can also repost it, if desired.
I understand you were asked to commit it yourself. Did you get the write access to the repository? > > I think it would be nice to have a universal infrastructure for all > > platforms that would use linker scripts instead of strip and objcopy on > > all platforms. > > > > objcopy has to be used if the native object format on a platform is not > (the) ELF (variant the grub loader expects). > > Unfortunately, libbfd is apparently not designed to support conversion > of relocation info. I see. > > Perhaps you could clone git://repo.or.cz/grub2.git and keep the patches > > in your local copy? > > OK, added this as remote to my repo. One part of that patch is in the repository already. I saw that your patch makes some function static. I checked the source for missing prototypes, and committed the needed fixes. It should be trivial to merge. > >> The cygwin port of grub2 is targeted to users who want a *n[iu]x > >> environment, but (have to) use Windows as main work OS for whatever > >> reason. They likely have already installed cygwin :-) > >> > > > > Why would they benefit from GRUB? Just wondering. > > > > > > The ability to maintain the boot manger and create rescue discs from > Cygwin shell without reboot is useful. I see. Thanks for your answers! -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
