Re: [Patch] Enable libzfs detection on Linux

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Millan
(in getroot for ZFS without libzfs? thread). Did you see this part of the thread? -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
devices that each need grub installed, or for something else? grub-probe internally needs access to the raw devices because it wants to use GRUB codepaths to obtain fs_uuid and such. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
changes without notice, there's no soname update and no versioning information. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645305 -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-16 Thread Robert Millan
2011/10/16 Robert Millan r...@gnu.org: What is the device node list used for? To list devices that each need grub installed, or for something else? grub-probe internally needs access to the raw devices because it wants to use GRUB codepaths to obtain fs_uuid and such. In other words: to use

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-10-15 Thread Robert Millan
layer like they currently do with LVM or mdRAID, but they don't need the device node list anymore (since it's filled with a full scan, as with LVM). -- Robert Millan === modified file 'configure.ac' --- configure.ac 2011-08-19 20:49:48 + +++ configure.ac 2011-10-15 16:42:10 + @@ -916,18 +916,6

Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

2011-08-09 Thread Robert Millan
/zfs. But is that device meant to be used directly? How stable is this interface? -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Loongson 2E boot failure

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Millan
grub_machine_mmap_iterate() with something like: grub_err_t grub_machine_mmap_iterate (grub_memory_hook_t hook) { hook (0x8100, 8200, GRUB_MEMORY_AVAILABLE); return GRUB_ERR_NONE; } -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https

Re: grub-extras legal and technical status (was Re: ZFS imported into GRUB)

2010-12-15 Thread Robert Millan
licensed any code under GPL, only that your license terms (or in this case, your lack of copyright assertion) are compatible with the GPL. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

ZFS imported into GRUB

2010-12-02 Thread Robert Millan
code to be free for all users, always use the latest version of the GPL. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: ZFS imported into GRUB

2010-12-02 Thread Robert Millan
, a different one is leaving the GNU system without its bootloader. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?

2010-09-10 Thread Robert Millan
2010/9/10, lode leroy lode_le...@hotmail.com: It may be easy to copy files onto the filesystem, but not-so-easy to create a working native grub. What's hard about grub-install /dev/sda ? -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel

Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?

2010-09-09 Thread Robert Millan
from GRUB is not possible. Given that setup command can only perform part of this, it is unrealistic to pretend setup command is useful. This is why it was removed. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: LiveCD bootloader

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
only a problem with Linux itself now. Not with Linux either, just set gfxpayload=keep and GRUB will preserve video mode when giving control to Linux. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: LiveCD bootloader

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/trunk/installer/build/boot/kfreebsd/grub-kfreebsd-cdrom.cfg?revision=64460view=markup -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

gazillon of double-free

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Millan
is not allocated but we free it anyway. Or perhaps I'm missing something? (it's late here, I need some sleep) -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: Bug#593467: grub-pc: add support for root ext2/xfs on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
as a module. -- Robert Millan 2010-08-20 Robert Millan r...@gnu.org * util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in (kfreebsd_entry): Add generic module load routine. Map GRUB `ext2' to kFreeBSD `ext2fs'. === modified file 'util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in' --- util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in 2010-08-08 14:27:58 +

Re: Bug#593467: grub-pc: add support for root ext2/xfs on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
). Let me know if there were a problem with other filesystems. -- Robert Millan === modified file 'ChangeLog' --- ChangeLog 2010-08-19 23:15:23 + +++ ChangeLog 2010-08-20 14:34:56 + @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2010-08-20 Robert Millan r...@gnu.org + + Make kFreeBSD code more generic to support ext2fs

Re: grub-setup on ZFS (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-17 Thread Robert Millan
when it isn't obvious they are equivalent. Also, in ZFS there isn't a single device name that identifies the whole pool (as with mdraid), which would make the semantics even more confusing. -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org

Re: [PATCH] add grub-mbchk utility to grub

2010-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
2010/8/10, Scott Moser scott.mo...@canonical.com: Hi all, I've been playing around with multiboot images, and found grub 0.97's 'mbchk' to be very useful. Its really nice from a shell script or other to easily answer is this file a multiboot image?. The attached patch basically copies

Re: [PATCH] add grub-mbchk utility to grub

2010-08-12 Thread Robert Millan
-load_addr); + return 0; + } -- Robert Millan ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

grub-setup on ZFS (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Millan
2010/8/4, Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com: I don't think this is the appropiate place for this kind of sanity check. Keep in mind grub-probe -t device has many purposes, and for some of them (e.g. determining the partmap) the ZFS status is irrelevant. Hmm. I do see your point

Re: grub-setup on ZFS (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-04 Thread Robert Millan
I'd also point out that the device where grub-setup will embed core.img is a minor issue here, since it's trivial to run grub-setup multiple times. The real problem is putting /boot/grub/ in a mirrored filesystem so that either copy of core.img will be able to access this directory from any of

system-installed libzfs.h and libnvpair.h (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

2010-08-01 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Robert Millan r...@gnu.org: Unfortunately there are availability problems with libzfs.h and libnvpair.h. On FreeBSD they're not installed system-wide. On OpenSolaris I can't see them installed either (although in this one I'm probably missing something). I figured what's going

Re: [PATCH] ZFS (dev)/foo@/ pathnames

2010-08-01 Thread Robert Millan
Committed, with some adjustments. I put the new code in misc.c instead of getroot.c to prevent grub-mkrelpath (and others) from having to drag a gazillon other files in. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com: Ah, ok. As long as we try the system-installed libzfs.h first, I'm ok then. We do now. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com: You need to ensure that the deivce given isn't degraded. It's certainly possible to boot with a mirrored root with one device degraded. If you choose that device for grub-setup, you may fail to write to it or you may succeed, but

[PATCH] ZFS root in 10_kfreebsd.in

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
This adds support for ZFS root in 10_kfreebsd.in. It works with current trunk if my grub-mkrelpath patch has been applied, and if ZFS from grub-extras has been built into GRUB. 2010-07-31 Robert Millan r...@gnu.org * util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in: Initialize ${kfreebsd_device} as the kFreeBSD

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/29, Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com: This code will not handle a mirrored root pool. See the Solaris implementation of vdev_get_physpaths() and zpool_get_config_physpath(). Thanks for the pointer. I avoid reading libzfs source, but looking at the dump from nvlist_print(), the

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com: Don't forget to check the state of the device also. Can you be more specific? I notice a state integer variable associated with the pool (none associated with the device), which has a zero-value in my case (I assume this indicates no error).

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
This patch adds OpenSolaris support as well, but unfortunately I can't test it. I will commit if someone (Seth?) can confirm it works. === modified file 'configure.ac' --- configure.ac 2010-07-30 19:43:12 + +++ configure.ac 2010-07-30 20:20:43 + @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ else fi # Check for

Re: [PATCH] ZFS (dev)/foo@/ pathnames

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
Same patch with a bit of cleanup, and ChangeLog entry. 2010/7/29, Robert Millan r...@gnu.org: This patch is a proof of concept for solving the ZFS (dev)/foo@/ pathname problem at the lowest possible level: a small change in grub_make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() propagates into all

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/30, Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com: I saw your commit of these changes. Why are you delivering a libzfs.h and libnvpair.h? I think GRUB should be using the headers that are installed on the systems [...] Unfortunately there are availability problems with libzfs.h and

[PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
Please test / comment / etc. 2010-07-29 Robert Millan r...@gnu.org Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS. * configure.ac: Check for getfsstat(), libzfs and libnvpair. * include/grub/util/libnvpair.h: New file. * include/grub/util/libzfs.h: New file. * kern/emu/getroot.c

Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
New version, with a few bugfixes (find_mount_point_from_dir logic, use heap allocation, support pools with multiple filesystems). ChangeLog entry is the same. === modified file 'configure.ac' --- configure.ac 2010-07-04 22:45:14 + +++ configure.ac 2010-07-29 13:43:00 + @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@

[PATCH] ZFS (dev)/foo@/ pathnames

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
This patch is a proof of concept for solving the ZFS (dev)/foo@/ pathname problem at the lowest possible level: a small change in grub_make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() propagates into all the places in grub-install and grub-mkconfig that are affected by the problem. It factors some of the

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/28, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: I don't think that the design needs changes but I'm open to discussion. My proposal seemed like an improvement in design, which I wanted to do before dealing with grub-install/grub-mkconfig. But obviously I've missed some

Re: libzfs

2010-07-28 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/28, Tuco tuco@gmail.com: I was already on this. I made some progress and have libzfs now, expect zpool/zfs to follow soon. Here is my patch if you want to build libzfs yourself: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=libzfs.diff;att=1;bug=590639 Very nice.

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-23 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/22 Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com I guess the API exported by libzfs can serve for this?  But first, I have some concern about zfs.mod, I'll write a detailed mail about that later.  That's how I'm implementing it, though libzfs is technically an uncommitted interface. What

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-23 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/21 Tuco tuco@gmail.com: Is this a known problem? Should I investigate? Can you give some guideline? If you want to help, you could have a look at porting libzfs over to GNU/kFreeBSD. It's likely that GRUB will need it, and in either case the Debian folks definitely will.

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-23 Thread Robert Millan
The problem I see with current zfs.mod is that it integrates with GRUB using the filesystem model, i.e. each pool has one backend (the storage device) and one frontend (the filesystem). But ZFS is different in both ends: each pool can use N storage devices and provide M filesystems. In the

Re: ZFS on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-07-22 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, This has been on my radar for a while now, I'll have a look at it (today I start my vacation and have some spare time (but don't hold your breath...)). 2010/7/21, Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com: The main problem is that the st_dev that you'll get from a call to stat() of a file on

Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-05 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/3, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: Using GUID in GPT to locate the embedded zone would be good but it has nothing to do with this standard. Robert made some work in this direction but never finished (he wrote MBR but not some required changes to diskboot.img)

hybrid DOS/GPT and BIOS Boot Partition

2010-07-02 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Sorry for breaking the thread, but I just stepped in because I participated in the standarisation of the BIOS Boot Partition mechanism, and in early discussions about this hybrid DOS/GPT protocol which led to the standard being discussed, and I want to clarify something. GRUB implements the

freeze announcement

2010-02-15 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, trunk repository is now frozen in preparation for GRUB 1.98, which will be released soon, most likely this month. I leave Vladimir in charge of this freeze process. Please ask him for approval when in doubt. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi

Re: [multiboot2] Tagged multiboot2 header

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Millan
and never showed any interest in Multiboot. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: PlayStation 3 liberated

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Millan
, but finding an exploit that works without hardware interaction. Well that would be very interesing indeed, but in GRUB project we're generally concerned about improving GRUB... -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi

Re: PlayStation 3 liberated

2010-01-29 Thread Robert Millan
. Robert where did you find this bit of news? IRC. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

PlayStation 3 liberated

2010-01-28 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: On gratuitous modularization

2010-01-26 Thread Robert Millan
be possible with a grub_disk_dev.ioctl(.) call. The problem I see with 'grub_disk_ata_pass_through' is that it shouldn't be in kernel. The interface itself is less relevant IMO. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi

PXE directory listing incorrectly reported as success

2010-01-26 Thread Robert Millan
solution to this? We could add a proper probe() function and switch all filesystems to it, but only for the benefit of pxe it seems a bit overkill. Does someone have a better idea? -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi

On gratuitous modularization

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Millan
a helper for loaders of *BSD kernels. Please also see Okuji's article on this subject: http://grub.enbug.org/OnSplittingModules -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org

Re: Changes in GRUB help

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Millan
can do that if you lile; it's a wiki. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Announcing GRUB 1.97.2

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
the `gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.61 Ruby 1.8.7 GCC 4.4 is the recommended version for building it, although any version starting with 4.1.3 is supported in this release. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see

Re: Announcing GRUB 1.97.2

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 07:36:51PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: - A number of header declarations had their copyright/license headers missing. They had been imported in GRUB Legacy many years ago, and recently found their way into the 1.97 release. The files in question were imported

Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
that the OS console output is displayed the same way automatically. Makes sense. Can you draft a proposal? -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
,bsd1) With this approach, the burden is no longer in GRUB. Then I don't care how weird disk layouts can become, because GRUB doesn't have to probe them. We can even support things like this if it makes users happy: (hd0,bsd2,msdos1,sun1,apple4,msdos1) -- Robert Millan Be the change you want

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
(as Vladimir's existing implementation already supports arbitrary nesting). Note that it is very easy for Intel to specify and implement that: in their world there's only one partition label type (plus another one which is backward compatible with the first). -- Robert Millan Be the change you

Re: comment about grub_error, capitalisation and one commit

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
be nice. If you'd like to implement it, I think it should be possible to verify this entirely in build time. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: grub payload fails on coreboot

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
= 0xbfffe000 Did you try with testing coreboot+GRUB on qemu? -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
do: grub ls (hd0) Possible msdos label: 1 2 3 Possible gpt label: 1 2 etc. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
) from the user, it implies we know what's the partition label in hd0, but reality is that we're just guessing. User, however, will expect things to just work, and if they fail will blame it on GRUB. This is what I refer to when I speak of burden. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want

Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
, but if a screen is physically rotated, it's clearly not software. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [multiboot2] Tagged multiboot2 header

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
at Bazaar history). -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:31:35AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: When you hide complexity from the user, the user doesn't generally care or want to understand what this involves. When we accept (hd0,1) from the user, it implies we know what's the partition label in hd0, but reality

Re: [PATCH] make 'sleep --interruptible 0' interruptible

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
drivers (at_keyboard / usb_keyboard) in the near future. I guess this resolves the stated problem, so I wouldn't invest a lot of effort in finding other solutions to it. If you want to help with polishing at_keyboard, usb_keyboard and the USB stack, that'd be most welcome. -- Robert Millan

Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] GRUB script lexer rewrite using flex

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
. Has this changed, or I'm missing something? -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] nested partitions

2010-01-22 Thread Robert Millan
is a good choice IMO (and the rest of the free world seems to be moving in this direction thanks to 2 TiB limit). [1] I know the first one is already implemented, but your approach makes it less ad-hoc and splits code off part_msdos.mod, which is an improvement. -- Robert Millan Be the change you

[PATCH] gfxmenu relative path in file component of images

2010-01-20 Thread Robert Millan
This makes it possible to use relative paths in the file component of gfxmenu images. I've tested that it works, but I'd appreciate if someone more familiar with gfxmenu can review it. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi === modified file 'gfxmenu

Re: RFC: Support Linux command line variants in grub-mkconfig

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
. It is already more complex than it needs to be. The scripts in /etc/grub.d *are* config files. There's no reason you can't edit them to suit your needs. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list

Re: [PATCH] switch from sprintf to asprintf and snprintf

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:02:55PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:32:24AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:30:12AM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: +char *EXPORT_FUNC

Re: EFI boot problem with MBP 5,4

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
. MBP4,1). Given this note in commit log: [...] This is somewhat hacky, but it appears to be the only way to do this that does not break some some set of existing bootloaders. I think you should report it to them. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
) and then merge it into trunk. We had worse problems with the situation Colin Watson described. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [PATCH] Multiboot video support

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
a very good reason to provide it. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [multiboot] abstractmbi, modules

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
tends to put MBI and associated structures right after payload code (unlike GRUB Legacy which uses a fixed location below 1 MiB). -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

Re: [PATCH] Add 2 more E820 to ACPI specification

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
? -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Some tests using unit-testing-framework

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
header. Btw, feel free to commit this and also add new tests directly into trunk, as long as they can run succesfuly in any sane build environment. Thanks -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing

Re: Bazaar workflow for GRUB

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
missing it. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] GRUB script lexer rewrite using flex

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
it shouldn't go in trunk untill after next release (1.98). -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] switch from sprintf to asprintf and snprintf

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:56:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:29:14PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:02:55PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:32:24AM +, Colin

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
with languages! You probably meant US keyboard. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
, extreme cases that Grub for some reason could not reach the keyboard layout file. What's the total size we're talking about? -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

Re: keyboard layout patches

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
[4] = { 'P', 'F', 'F', '2' }; ? If should be in a macro (as I think so) I will fix after finishing other things. Yeah it should. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Add 2 more E820 to ACPI specification

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:17:26AM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 06:18:43PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Hello. This defines 2 more types for mmap_type in a way to match E820 values. As grub

Re: Build error: ENABLE_NLS is not defined

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
' '{}' ';' This affects gnulib/error.c and gnulib/gettext.h which would be much better not to change, as they're being imported semi-automatically. Perhaps you could solve this at its source? (i.e. by defining ENABLE_NLS to 0 when gettext is unavailable). -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see

Re: [multiboot] command-line format

2010-01-19 Thread Robert Millan
}${SYSTEM_PATH} Then your system tools obtain a path that makes sense to them. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: IA64 port

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Millan
) -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [multiboot] command-line format

2010-01-15 Thread Robert Millan
this is appropiate. TIA -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, I committed your last patch with some minor stylistic adjustments, plus your changes to the example kernel. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

Re: [PATCH] Search hinting support

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: GRUB update problems

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
to help the GRUB project by watching help-grub and helping with user requests there, he/she's more than welcome to do that. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

Re: [RFC] Multiboot ammendment: non-VBE video

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:35:38PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Robert Millan wrote: + .long 0 + .long 1024 + .long 768 + .long 32 Maybe better to use 640x480 instead? Not everyone has a large display. It's only a recommended resolution

Re: [URGENT] Re: bazaar

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
not automatically enabled for new branches, but at least for the important ones like trunk and experimental already have it. This also implies that uncommit won't work anymore on already pushed changes. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi

Re: meaning of absent --users prameters.

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
can boot -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Move environment context handling out of kernel.

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
need contexts so I propose to move context handling to normal.mod rather than have it in kernel. Saves 314 bytes. Available in experimental Hi, Your attachment doesn't render well in Mutt. I think quoted-printable encoding messes it up. Perhaps you could disable quoted-printable? -- Robert

Re: Check for device type (block/character) in grub-setup?

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:31:02PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:54:49AM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote: Hi, I'm wondering why there is no check for device type (block/character) in grub-setup.c whereas the function probe() in grub-probe.c exits

Re: GRUB Faq

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
it completely. In general, references to GRUB 2 need to disappear from the website, wiki and documentation. Now that GRUB Legacy is completely obsolete it's not necessary to make the distinction in most contexts. Would you be interested in adapting the website? -- Robert Millan Be the change you want

Re: [RFC] Tagged mbi

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
be spilled all over the memory -It's unstraightforward to e.g. specify 2 framebuffers Seems like there's a problem indeed. I propose to use tagged MBI. Can you provide a short explanation on this proposed solution? You explained the problem, but not the solution. -- Robert Millan Be the change you

Multiboot 2 branch (Re: [RFC] Tagged mbi)

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
to diverge from them, as all the GRUB-specific declarations are split in grub/* namespace already. -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: EFI boot problem with MBP 5,4

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
a regression test (aka bisect) on Linux source? This would help us figure out the problem (whether it's a bug in Linux, in GRUB or in your firmware). -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list

Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Millan
. Better just ignore this part ;-) Sorry to be stupid, Not at all! -- Robert Millan Be the change you want to see in the world -- Gandhi ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

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