Re: [PATCH] ext4 extent support

2008-07-06 Thread Felix Zielcke
-- From: JavierMartín [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 8:09 PM To: The development of GRUB 2 grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4 extent support I mean unimplemented in GRUB right now. Ah yeah of course :) IIrc,

Re: [PATCH] ext4 extent support

2008-07-06 Thread Felix Zielcke
From: Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:51 AM To: The development of GRUB 2 grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4 extent support I found the description of flex_bg: This feature relaxes check restrictions on where each block groups meta data is located within the

Re: Endianness macros capitalization

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:54:58AM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: El sáb, 05-07-2008 a las 17:30 -0400, Pavel Roskin escribió: They probably should be functions. We may want to sparse annotate GRUB one day, and then inline functions in the only way to go. Hmm... you mean changing this

Re: GRUB Loading kernel... message

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:35:15PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 19:24 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: . Although, looking at the files, boot/i386/pc/boot.S outputs GRUB and boot/i386/pc/diskboot.S outputs Loading kernel, so the parts actually mean different things:

Re: GRUB Loading kernel... message

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:24:56PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: I thought I remembered somewhere a discussion how the message GRUB Loading kernel is confusing, because it doesn't say what kernel it's loading, and grub loads lots of kernels I think this is not accurate. GRUB loads payloads.

Re: GRUB Loading kernel... message

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 08:33:03PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:35:15PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 19:24 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: . Although, looking at the files, boot/i386/pc/boot.S outputs GRUB and boot/i386/pc/diskboot.S outputs

Re: [PATCH] Fix chainloding + Chainloading into logical partitions

2008-07-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:28:24AM +, Lucas Gadani wrote: Hello, This is my first patch for GRUB, and I haven't found any coding styles/formatting, nor developer documentation, so, if there's something wrong, please, forgive me and point me to the right direction. Current

Idea: Single-time setting change

2008-07-06 Thread Jago Pearce
Simply add an option to so that the default boot can be changed to something, but then changes back to it\'s original setting after that boot. This way I can create an option of `Reboot into Windows`, walk away for a coffee and find it sitting in Windows or other o/s ready for me. Unless perhaps

Re: Endianness macros capitalization

2008-07-06 Thread Javier Martín
El dom, 06-07-2008 a las 20:30 +0200, Robert Millan escribió: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 12:54:58AM +0200, Javier Martín wrote: El sáb, 05-07-2008 a las 17:30 -0400, Pavel Roskin escribió: They probably should be functions. We may want to sparse annotate GRUB one day, and then inline

Re: [PATCH] Fix chainloding + Chainloading into logical partitions

2008-07-06 Thread Lucas Gadani
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 18:41, Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like it increases pc.mod code to store information that is only useful to the chainloader. Is there a reason for not having the chainloader retrieve it? (note that for disk access we have a cache) We would need to

Idea: elimination of the normal mode (revised version)

2008-07-06 Thread Bean
Hi, First of all, we can still keep rescue and normal command. But instead of depending on normal.mod, normal command depends on module arg, which is an option parser. Also, these two type of commands are of the same command set. In fact, module arg is implemented as a pre parser, which goes