Re: [PATCH] update configure.ac to autoconf 2.61

2008-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 03.09.2008, 19:47 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin: You can get the current config.* files from CVS: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/config co config They are maintained in a very conservative matter, so it may be better to use the CVS versions. Actually, it's possible

Re: [PATCH] update configure.ac to autoconf 2.61

2008-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 03.09.2008, 19:43 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin: I don't see any old stuff being removed. I don't see any justification for any of the changes. The new code is longer and less readable. I don't think AC_TRY_COMPILE is a big problem yet. It's not like it won't produce a

[RFC] I suggest to add -Wall to autoconf and autoheader calls

2008-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
With my configure.ac autoconf[0] topic I just got the idea to add `-Wall' option to `autoconf' in `autogen.sh' We're using -Wall for gcc so why not for autoconf and autoheader too? Then once in a while someone will hopefully notice that something might need a change and will look into it. [0]

[RFC] rename update-grub to update-grubcfg

2008-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
There was already the topic to rename update-grub to grub-update[0] On Debian such things are always called update-something not something-update[1] I just told again in a Debian Bugreport to use grub-install to update grub in real. So I suggest to rename update-grub to something like

Re: [RFC] rename update-grub to update-grubcfg

2008-09-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:22 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: There was already the topic to rename update-grub to grub-update[0] On Debian such things are always called update-something not something-update[1] I just told again in a Debian Bugreport to use grub-install to update grub in real.

Re: [PATCH] update configure.ac to autoconf 2.61

2008-09-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:45 +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: Okuji wrote that he uses Autoconf 2.59, so it would be nice to check that your changes would still work with that version. Luckly it's still avaible in Debian oldstable (sarge) newest CentOS 5.2 even still has autoconf 2.59 Changes

Re: [PATCH] update configure.ac to autoconf 2.61

2008-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Donnerstag, den 04.09.2008, 12:49 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin: I'm fine with the shorter patch, but I'd like you to wait a couple of days in case there are any objections. Vesa said already on IRC to me that it's fine for me to but he suggests waiting vor Okuji or Marco which I wanted to do

Re: [RFC] DISTLIST and gendistlist.sh

2008-09-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 07:30 -0400 schrieb Pavel Roskin: If I was releasing GRUB, I would avoid using DISTLIST even temporarily. I would use a separate script for making releases that would: 1) call svn export to create a clean tree 2) create generated files 3) remove

Re: [RFC]swapfso and ioctl function for filesystems

2008-09-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:25:51PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:42:44AM +0200, phcoder wrote: Hello, all. For some FS sometimes additional functions are needed. It could be some type of control (e.g. in ZFS manage zpools) or preparation for OS

Re: [RFC]swapfso and ioctl function for filesystems

2008-09-04 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:25:51PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:42:44AM +0200, phcoder wrote: Hello, all. For some FS sometimes additional functions are needed. It could be some type of control (e.g. in ZFS manage zpools) or

Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

2008-09-04 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:31:10PM +0200, phcoder wrote: I assume you talk about GRUB loading itself; what kind of information would you pass from one GRUB to the other? Boot device, Multiboot already handles that (although it's not reliable; I don't think this

Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

2008-09-04 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:49:14PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Possibilites are there, but basically they are limited to something like: (ata0) (pci-X-Y-Z:ata0) (usb-X-Y:scsi0) (pci-X-Y-Z:scsi0) I think this is overkill, and doesn't really address the root of the

Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-04 Thread phcoder
Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:08:50PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Hello. I was looking at the grub code and seen that if a disk has multiple partition tables (e.g. macintel with bootcamp) then only first one will be detected. In some cases it can lead to unreachable partitions if

Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-04 Thread phcoder
BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS modified the MBR it's no longer protective MBR. And in theese cases GRUB will refuse to boot. Isn't the magic number check enough? Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:08:50PM +0200,

Re: Sendkey patch

2008-09-04 Thread Javier Martín
El mié, 03-09-2008 a las 20:53 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: phcoder wrote: Hello. In this case we can transfer the whole functionality located in kern/loader.c to a dedicated module boot.mod. This module will also register boot command. In this way the encapsulation won't be broken

When the 'Fancy Menu' branch will be availble on the main thread?

2008-09-04 Thread y.volta
hi, all: Collin has submit the 'Fancy Menu', when it will be available on the main svn thread? And i want to make sure: - the fancy menu will support two bytes language? - the vbe engine support non linear frame buffer modes? i read the vbe.c line 445: /* We support

Re: Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-04 Thread y.volta
Lua has been widely used. for example, the Warcraft, the 'AutoPlay Menu Studio', 'Adobe Photoshop Lightroom'; Samba4, Damn Small Linux, SciTE ... here are two list: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUses, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28programming_language%29#Applications so, i think, we