absence notice...

2009-05-02 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
else for this occasion what important would have been under the work. I might read this mailing list occasionally, but don't be suppriced if I do not notice questions addressed to me. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel

Re: absence notice...

2009-05-02 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: I will do this. I know you already had some work for mm underway that's why I wasn't doing it. Could you send what you already have even if it's far from complete? Sorry. Everything got lost on laptop. ___

Re: Framebuffer/vbe separation

2009-04-21 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: Hello, currently vbe module contains all the framebuffer functions which are actually adapter-independent and I think more adapters can be implementing by providing a function which sets mode and framebuffer. Additionally it provides an interface to retrieve

memory allocator enhancements...

2009-04-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
. Are there any other needs? So what does people feel about these changes. I am afraid if too much freedom is given it will make it complex... Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub

Re: Move loader.c out of the kernel

2009-04-01 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: This usage case isn't the main target case. If you embed the loader (which tend to be quite big) then you already have an overhead from loader module. Why are you so concerned with overhead of boot.mod? But on the other hand this forces all the people in other cases to have

Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode

2009-03-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Bean wrote: Hi, This patch split the function of normal mode into small modules, here is a summary: 1, Move dynamic command loader to commands/dyncmd.c (dyncmd.mod) 2, Move automatic fs loader to fs/autofs.c (autofs.mod) 3, Split normal mode into three major parts: parser/normal -

Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode

2009-03-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: You should select compile-time loading (i.e. linking) whenever possible. If a function is loaded eventually, it should be linked at compile time. You should select automatic loading, if you need runtime linking. Manual loading should be considered evil, in

Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode

2009-03-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: Any objection? Not really. I will make some grief, but it might be a good thing in overall. Just to make it clear: It will... ;) ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode

2009-03-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Here I must comment that in some cases it is favorable to do it this way. I personally will only commit changes that I am happy to live with. Even if you are developer with SVN commit rights it is in some cases good idea to have general review of the patch... but there has been some lack of the

Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode

2009-03-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Sunday 29 March 2009 20:40:17 David Miller wrote: Everybody is too busy to give this project the attention and time it deserves to be maintained properly. I honestly do not think the situation will change significantly until someone is able to devote real time as

Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode

2009-03-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Sunday 29 March 2009 22:23:11 Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Both of those projects has divided work force dedicated to maintain and drive enhancements to defined goals. Now if we map this to our situation: - We are missing what we want to do (eg. roadmap, feature

Re: Idea: move grub-emu to a separate platform

2009-03-28 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Bean wrote: Hi, Currently, the grub-emu is in every rmk files, but I don't see the difference between grub-emu in i386-pc, i386-coreboot or i386-efi. In fact, grub-emu runs inside the host os, it can't access firmware facility anyway. One quick fix to move grub-emu to i386.rmk, but we

Re: [PATCH] 5/5 Graphical menu (gfxmenu)

2009-03-21 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: This long-awaited patch adds graphical menu support to GRUB 2. It is largely the result of my work during the Google Summer of Code 2008. The graphical menu system supports image-based themes, of which I have created several sample themes[1]. There are still a few

Re: GRUB device names wrt. ieee1275

2009-03-15 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
David Miller wrote: One issue I need to resolve before I can send finalized patches out for sparc is about device naming. Currently the PowerPC ieee1275 support allows using both device aliases and full openfirmware device path names with the usual GRUB partition specification concatenated

Re: [PATCH] dynamic cache allocation

2009-03-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: Hello. Discussing with Robert Millan and Bean on IRC we noticed that disk cache index is statically allocated. Here is a proposal to change it to dynamic allocation proportional to the size of available memory. And the gain is ? ___

Re: [PATCH] linux/gfxterm integration

2009-03-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:57:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: This patch integrates the generic Linux loader with gfxterm. The result is that graphical mode becomes usable with this loader. Our loader gets the screen settings from the video subsystem (as per gfxterm

Re: [PATCH 1/7]: Fix sparc64 setjmp implementation.

2009-03-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
David Miller wrote: + stx %g1, [%sp + 2047 + (14 * 8)] +retl + restore %o1, 0, %o0 Please check your white spaces. As we can see here those three commands are on different columns (mixed tabs and spaces). This applies to every other patch you sent too...

Re: [PATCH 1/7]: Fix sparc64 setjmp implementation.

2009-03-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
David Miller wrote: This corrects the sparc64 setjmp implementation. We need to store the return address register, the stack pointer, and frame pointer into the jump buf. And on longjmp we need restore those registers, flush the register window state, and pull in the top-most register

Re: [PATCH 0/7]: Get sparc building again.

2009-03-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
David Miller wrote: Here is a series of patches that fix the most obvious sparc bugs and get the grub2 tree building again. I have code for boot/ that will implement the sparc boot blocks and things of that nature, but that will come later. First things first, let's get it to actually

Re: [PATCH 3/7]: Implement proper sparc64 kern startup.

2009-03-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
David Miller wrote: This replaces the C implementation with a proper assembler one. Also add missing grub_prefix[] declaration to kernel.h 2009-03-03 David S. Miller da...@davemloft.net * kern/sparc64/ieee1275/init.c: Delete, replace with... * kern/sparc64/ieee1275/crt0.S:

Re: [PATCH 5/7]: Add sparc64 loader implementation.

2009-03-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
David Miller wrote: 2009-03-03 David S. Miller da...@davemloft.net * include/grub/sparc64/ieee1275/loader.h: New file. * include/grub/sparc64/ieee1275/memory.h: Likewise. * include/grub/sparc64/kernel.h: Likewise. * loader/sparc64/ieee1275/linux.c: Likewise.

Re: [PATCH 7/7]: Get cob-webs out of sparc64-ieee1275.rmk

2009-03-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
David Miller wrote: There is no way anyone tried to build the sparc target in years :-) This updates sparc64-ieee1275.rmk with modern times and regenerates sparc64-ieee1275.mk as well as DISTLIST. 2009-03-03 David S. Miller da...@davemloft.net * conf/sparc64-ieee1275.rmk: Update.

Re: [PATCH]: Strip boot block built objects.

2009-03-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
David Miller wrote: From: Vesa Jääskeläinen ch...@nic.fi Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:59:43 +0200 David Miller wrote: In order for the boot block images for sparc to work properly, we have to strip them out before doing the objcopy. This is harmless on i386-pc and some other future grub

Re: Menu locks / password authentication

2009-03-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: It's funny, we're all discussing about performing security measurements in GRUB and nobody mentioned that our user interface lacks even the most basic lock mechanism :-) Perhaps this would be a good time to retake the discussion on implementing an equivalent to lock and

qemu + gdb debugging...

2009-02-22 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
debugging working. And as this step is shared between those two I propose that this work is sliced to two pieces. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen Index: ChangeLog === --- ChangeLog (revision 1999) +++ ChangeLog (working copy) @@ -1,3

Re: qemu + gdb debugging...

2009-02-22 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
time :). Tips for RM code debugging: 'set arch i8086' and 'x/10i ($cs4)+$eip'. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: GRUB trusted boot framework

2009-02-22 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Hi All, Ok. Please keep the fighting of TPM out of this thread ;). Lets keep it to the topic first... (I am already waiting for summary of that other discussion at some point ;)) Jan Alsenz wrote: Next I think we can agree, that some sort of trusted boot chain can be useful. Also there

Re: GRUB trusted boot framework

2009-02-22 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Jan Alsenz wrote: Vesa Jääskeläinen write: I do like the idea what some protected systems use, they sign the binary (in our case .mod file and kernels of loaded OSes). Now in that scenario it is responsibility of the kernel module loader to first verify the signature for correctness. This way

Re: A _good_ and valid use for TPM

2009-02-20 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Jan Alsenz wrote: I agree too! Multiple methods are interesting and everything that can be, should be placed in modules. But some parts of a trusted boot chain need to be in the MBR, etc. which is mainline code (regardless of how how you build it). The way I have implemented my

Re: [PATCH] Handler support

2009-02-14 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Bean wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: A. Am Samstag, den 14.02.2009, 22:46 +0800 schrieb Bean: If there is no objection, I'd commit this patch in a few days. Hello Bean, if you want to drop termin_input and terminal_output command then

Re: [Bugfix] Characters disappearing in gfxterm

2009-02-10 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
BandiPat wrote: Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: phcoder wrote: Hello. I've run into the bug that when editing menu entry in gfxterm characters disappear after cursor moves away from its position. Here is bugfix I don't think this is a clean fix: It is not designed to work in there. I think

Re: [Bugfix] Characters disappearing in gfxterm

2009-02-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: Hello. I've run into the bug that when editing menu entry in gfxterm characters disappear after cursor moves away from its position. Here is bugfix I don't think this is a clean fix: Index: term/gfxterm.c ===

Re: [Bugfix] vbetest doesn't return to text mode

2009-02-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
of the code so it can also handle text modes. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: compilation of grub-emu is currently broken

2009-02-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Felix Zielcke wrote: Am Sonntag, den 01.02.2009, 21:08 +0100 schrieb Felix Zielcke: grub_emu-normal_main.o: In function `grub_mod_init': /home/fz/grub/grub2.svn/normal/main.c:623: undefined reference to `grub_menu_viewer_register' grub_emu-normal_main.o: In function `grub_normal_execute':

Re: Help with Grub2

2009-02-01 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
BandiPat wrote: Compiled and installed grub2. Remove LILO from MBR. Ran grub-install /dev/sda. Run grub-setup /dev/sda. Ran update-grub to let it create a grub.cfg file. So far, so good and checking everything, it all looks great according to the instructions I have been able to find. By

Re: compilation of grub-emu is currently broken

2009-02-01 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Felix Zielcke wrote: grub_emu-normal_main.o: In function `grub_mod_init': /home/fz/grub/grub2.svn/normal/main.c:623: undefined reference to `grub_menu_viewer_register' grub_emu-normal_main.o: In function `grub_normal_execute': /home/fz/grub/grub2.svn/normal/main.c:580: undefined reference to

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #05 Menu entry class attribute (v2)

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
changes yourself. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] 1/5 Multiple fallback entries

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: This patch adds support for multiple fallback entries in grub.cfg. I'll prepare the ChangeLog entry when the patch is approved to be committed. The patch is against GRUB trunk revision 1964. What do you think if all text menu related would be moved to own file, like

Re: [PATCH] 2/5 VBE double buffering

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: This patch adds double buffering support support to the VBE video driver including page flipping and blitting from an offscreen back buffer. The patch is against GRUB trunk revision 1964. Unless we come up with better idea we can go with this time being... Check the

Re: [PATCH] 3/5 Bitmap scaling

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: This patch adds bitmap scaling support to GRUB. It also adds support to gfxterm for scaling the background image to fit the screen. The background_image command supports a new -m/--mode option, which takes stretch (the default) or normal as values. The patch is

Re: [PATCH] 4/5 Videotest enhancements

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: This patch improves the videotest command by adding a number of different tests for particular features. The 'videotest text' test tests the rendering of Unicode UTF-8 text, for instance, and the 'videotest bench' command runs a video performance benchmark. The

Re: [PATCH] 5/5 Graphical menu (gfxmenu)

2009-01-31 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Hi, As this patch is quite large and I am going go to sleep soon so I only comment your message on this run... Colin D Bennett wrote: This long-awaited patch adds graphical menu support to GRUB 2. It is largely the result of my work during the Google Summer of Code 2008. And thanks for it!

Re: The ponderings of a newbie

2009-01-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Jay Sullivan wrote: 1) Mailing lists: I'm wanting to avoid asking questions that have already been answered, and I'd like to keep up on current issues with grub2, so I'd like to try to keep the grub-devel mailing list sorted...but I'm clueless. First of all, is it strange of me to ask, What

Re: [PATCH] remove target_os

2009-01-27 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Javier Martín wrote: A, say, AMD64 Linux cross compiler hosted on x86 Cygwin would have $build=i686-pc-cygwin and $host=amd64-linux-gnu. Thus, no conflict ought to arise even with cross compilation enabled. AFAIK, the full power of $build+$host+$target only matters when building _compilers_

Re: State of GRUB on PowerPC

2009-01-27 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Michel Dänzer wrote: P.S. Please reconsider automatically rejecting posts from non-subscribers. I co-moderate half a dozen mailing lists, only costs me a couple of minutes a day thanks to a nice tool called 'listadmin'. grub-devel is a subscriber only list.

Re: GRUB 2 for DEC Alpha?

2009-01-27 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Matt Turner wrote: Hi, I learned today that GRUB 2 aims to be cross platform and already supports in some form PPC. Is there any interest in supporting the DEC Alpha (SRM) platform? If you are planning to provide the code for it and maintain it :) (or someone else). Alpha users

Re: Bugfix: no cursor on command line

2009-01-27 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: Testing grub I noticed this bug. Here is bugfix Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Index: normal/cmdline.c === --- normal/cmdline.c(revision 1959) +++ normal/cmdline.c(working copy) @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@

Re: Bugfix: no cursor on command line

2009-01-27 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: I do not remember seeing a problem here. So what is actually the problem and how to reproduce it? I booted GRUB2 by GRUB-Legacy, command prompt appeared and worked but there were no cursor. I think the same problem appears when the user opens command line from the menu.

Re: [PATCH] Build system improvement

2009-01-25 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Javier Martín wrote: This patch modifies several files in the build system (mainly common.rmk and genmk.rb) to reduce the general verbosity of the build process to a manageable, semi-informative level. Thus, what currently appears as gcc calls, several lines long each is turned into lines

Re: cmdline.c: ESC at any time exits: only mentioned once

2009-01-24 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Gentlemen, there is a serious usability problem with cmdline.c. At the very start the user sees the message made by grub_printf (\ [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB\n\ lists possible command completions. Anywhere else

Re: cat with pagination

2009-01-24 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hello, On Jan/24/2009, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: In Grub command line I really miss a cat with pagination (like more/less). Any reason that it's not here? I don't remember if we discussed it. Or it's there and I have not found. I've just remembered set

Re: gettext patch (beta)

2009-01-21 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: -I have seen that Grub2 is not printing correctly the accents, could be a problem in gettext or in some other layer Please provide example what is wrong and how it should look like. ___ Grub-devel mailing list

Re: [PATCH] use grub-mkfont to create ascii.pf2 and unicode.pf2 if it's avaible

2009-01-16 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Felix Zielcke wrote: Here's a little patch for Makefile.in to use the new grub-mkfont to create the font files. Is it okay or is there a better way to do this? Please remove the java code toolchain with the same change. ___ Grub-devel mailing list

Re: [PATCH] Converter for the new font engine

2009-01-06 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Bean wrote: Hi, This patch converts existing font to pf2. It uses the freetype2 library, so it can support most common file format, like bdf, pcf.gz, ttf, etc. Usage: grub-mkfont [OPTIONS] FONT_FILES Options: -o, --output=FILE_NAMEset output file name -i, --index=N

Re: Building a steady release cycle

2009-01-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Jerone Young wrote: Hey guys, I wanted to start up a discussion on building a steady release cycle. Many distros are now looking for some stability from Grub 2 as they are looking to include it in future releases. I was recently at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in December discussing

Re: incoming font engine update

2009-01-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Couple of days went and now patch finally went in. I have updated gfxterm part of the wiki to match new font enngine: I also moved common video subsystem code to common.rmk so that other architectures builds nicely too :) This does not however mean that all

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2009-01-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:44:49 -0600 Jerone Young jer...@gmail.com wrote: I just paid attention to this (sorry). So everything seems fine. But the dependency on a proprietary java stack to generate fonts isn't good. Does it happen to work with gcc java ? The font

Re: Problem with fonts in different width

2009-01-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: This would be fairly simple to do. The font would then effectively be a proportional-width font since the new font engine+gfxterm does not handle bi-width fonts in a character-cell environment. Actually it does :)... In a way at least. If you have lets say Hiragana

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2009-01-02 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: And the actual patch... ... went it. Instructions being updated... with another post when ready. ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2009-01-02 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Jerone Young wrote: I just paid attention to this (sorry). So everything seems fine. But the dependency on a proprietary java stack to generate fonts isn't good. Does it happen to work with gcc java ? Paying attention is not a bad thing as such :) Never tried it myself but it should work.

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2008-12-27 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
. These will be documented on Wiki once committed. 2008-12-28 Colin D Bennett co...@gibibit.com New font engine. Additional changes by Vesa Jääskeläinen ch...@nic.fi to adapt to build system and fixed gfxterm.c to work with different sized fonts. * configure.ac: Changed

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2008-12-23 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:18:14 +0200 Vesa Jääskeläinen ch...@nic.fi wrote: Colin D Bennett wrote: Update: I fixed an error pointed out to me by Y.Volta: In grub_font_get(), if no fonts are loaded, a null pointer is dereferenced. This is fixed in the attached patch

incoming font engine update

2008-12-22 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
. There are sill some patches that will need attention, but basically almost all ground work is after that ready. Next I will do some cleanup for the patch and try to commit it withing couple of days. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub

Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

2008-12-15 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: Hello,all. I was busy studying so wasn't watching the list. Is there a particular reason why my patch still isn't incorporated? Perhaps we didn't like the move of loader/boot core functionality out of kernel? And I do not remember you describing in detail about interfaces and

Re: Contribution to Grub

2008-12-14 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 04:13:46PM +0530, Varun Deshpande wrote: hi I am interested to contribute something in open source. I would like to contribute something for grub. I downloaded source code of grub-1.96 in TODO file i got this mail id. I am very much

Re: configure fail for grub

2008-12-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
James Shewey wrote: Grub will not currently compile on 64 bit distros. Try compiling with a 32 bit live cd or a 32 bit VM (you can try virtualbox.org for this) and then copying the requisite files to the 64 bit OS. I compile GRUB 2 SVN always on 64 bit Ubuntu... So please try with SVN

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2008-12-06 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Is this expected? Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: I'm a newb, looking for guidance

2008-12-02 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Jay Sullivan wrote: Okay! I realized now that I would like to install the newest version of grub2 to a USB drive. Can anyone recommend to me the best way to do this? This seems like a good idea since if it fails to boot, I can easily fallback to my harddrive's bootloader. I'd like to point

Re: [PATCH] --build-id= none in newer ld versions PowerPC

2008-12-01 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Manoel Rebelo Abranches wrote: This patch add --build-id=none option to newer ld versions when linking kernel.elf. This prevents grub-mkelfimage to behave wrongly. if test x$grub_cv_prog_ld_build_id_none = xyes; then MODULE_LDFLAGS=$MODULE_LDFLAGS -Wl,--build-id=none +

Re: I'm a newb, looking for guidance

2008-11-30 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
if you go that path. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=grub Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [RFC] Multi-terminal support (Re: [PATCH] terminal split)

2008-11-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:23:52PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: I've been thinking... what if we make this generic? I.e. with an event loop, then terminals can register their poll functions to it, and write their stuff to a shared resource the rest of GRUB can read

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-07 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bad news, I heard back from the two people who wrote the PCI serial code for Linux (Russell King Ted Tso) and they both agree that, no matter how the ambiguity got into the Linux source files, their intent was that the code was GPL v2 only. That being the case, we

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:38:02PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with using a PCI serial card for the console is that many PCI cards use a different crystal than the IBM PC standard. This means that serial drivers wind up computing the wrong divisor when

Re: [PATCH] terminal split

2008-11-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: BTW, I would like to obtain the capability of handling pipes, so that we can, say, help | more. I guess you have the same idea in your mind. This should be trivial, once the input and output are separate, right? I think this would need separated streams design in

Re: [PATCH] terminal split

2008-11-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: Hi, This patch splits terminal handling in input and output. While at it, it resolves/removes some of the kludges we had to work around this limitation. For example, gfxterm/vga no longer need to assume the input is bios console, at_keyboard can be used in

Re: [PATCH] framework for building modules externally

2008-11-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:55:52PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:32:29PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, Attached patch makes it possible to build modules externally, by: - Installing headers in system include dir

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)

2008-11-04 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:31:31 + Matt Sturgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will all these fonts be included in the next release of GRUB 2? Probably not; the licenses may not be compatible with GPLv3. These fonts are ones that came with X.Org on my system, and I just

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #09 Bitmap scaling

2008-10-15 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:11:42 +0300 Vesa Jääskeläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A minor point: You mentioned RGB and RGBA format--do you mean true color (either RGB[A] or BGR[A] layout) or do you mean literal RGB byte order? If we are talking about picking a single

Re: No scrolling for long input lines

2008-10-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Andy Goth wrote: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll test the current SVN this Friday, or perhaps Thursday night at the earliest. Actually I did spend time tonight investigating. I needed to get the latest SVN for another reason (about which I have questions I'll ask in a few days),

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #07 VBE double buffering (vs r1885)

2008-10-06 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
we are on good track to solve speed problem. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #05 Menu entry class attribute

2008-10-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Colin D Bennett wrote: This patch adds support for a 'class' attribute on menu entries. It is somewhat of a kludge, however since currently you just append |class=this,that to the menu entry title to specify the classes. Classes are used to provide a simple and flexible way for the best

Re: [RFC] Different keyborad layouts

2008-10-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: Btw, what happened to the handlers patch? I thought it was about to be merged. Handlers has nothing to do with this :) That is still pending before we get more discussion about that :) Anyway... what you are after is multiple terminal inputs and outputs support.

Re: [PATCH] GSoC #09 Bitmap scaling

2008-10-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: It is really necessary that all generic graphical menu code like bitmap scaler works always. Not just for some optimized formats as otherwise it would render graphical menu unusable in some cases. It can be not so pretty on low end systems

Re: [RFC] Different keyborad layouts

2008-09-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hello, I was thinking how we could have different keyboard layouts and after have some ideas I sent some emails to Robert about this topic (who had some better ideas :-) ) Let me to explain here some plan/design. I would like to research on it after some

Re: localization of Grub

2008-09-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:49:54PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: - gettextise the util tools, so they can be translated as normal programs. ok! (I guess/hope that will be more burocratic work than new work) It _is_ technical work I think, but less fun than the

Re: grub2 summer code theme in debian?

2008-09-29 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Bean wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.Bakshi wrote: In my debian lenny, the grub2 has very simple look. I know it can be tweak to get ubuntu style graphical grub2 interface. After searchine google I have found the Grub2 summer code

Re: grub2 summer code theme in debian?

2008-09-23 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
J.Bakshi wrote: In my debian lenny, the grub2 has very simple look. I know it can be tweak to get ubuntu style graphical grub2 interface. After searchine google I have found the Grub2 summer code project 2008 and I have downloaded the theme folder. But I can't understand how to include the

Re: setting the system clock before launching operating system

2008-09-14 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Sat 2008-09-13 00:52:47 -0400, Arthur Marsh wrote: Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote, on 2008-09-13 00:13: Geoff Karl wrote: I would like to be able to set the clock to a particular time automatically before launching an operating system. Anyone have any ideas

Re: setting the system clock before launching operating system

2008-09-12 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Geoff Karl wrote: I would like to be able to set the clock to a particular time automatically before launching an operating system. Anyone have any ideas if this can be done during the boot loader process? Yes it can be done. But why? ___

Re: About VBE double buffering

2008-09-10 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
y.volta wrote: I noticed that `grub_vbe_bios_set_display_start () which used AX=4F07h INT10h' used in the fancy menu patch. This will use the video buffer to do buffering, but this function will fail on some system, Collin told us in his Journal: However, VMware doesn't seem to

Re: [PATCH] Move normal, serial pci to i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Pavel Roskin wrote: I believe we could declare SPARC broken, but keep PowerPC working. The PowerPC code can be cross-compiled and tested in qemu. I can send my testing scripts if you want. Can you put that on Wiki? ___ Grub-devel mailing list

Re: [PATCH] Move normal, serial pci to i386.rmk

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:49:02AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: Quoting Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This patch moves normal, serial and pci to conf/i386.rmk. Why i386? That code is not i386 specific. It is. Notice it's being moved from conf/i386-*.rmk, not

Re: Release Plan update...

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Robert Millan wrote: On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:12:02PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Hi All, As our release plan is rotting a bit, I zapped current plan on Wiki and here is my proposal for plan targetting 2.0 gold release. == 1.97 == Estimate Date:: 2008-??-?? (ASAP) Release

Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a patch for it. Doesn't this break our rescue mode ? ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

2008-09-08 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Javier Martín wrote: El lun, 08-09-2008 a las 22:48 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: phcoder wrote: Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a patch for it. Doesn't this break our rescue mode ? How would it? As with other commands, there would be two versions

Release Plan update...

2008-09-07 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
''. Official major release intended to replace GRUB Legacy in mainstream use. Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

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

2008-09-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
y.volta wrote: hi, all: Collin has submit the 'Fancy Menu', when it will be available on the main svn thread? When it gets reviewed and merged. I have been slowly adapting some of the patches to my local devel tree so they can get committed. However I need to make sure they are

Re: Can LUA e coming with future Grub2

2008-09-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
to one of those work, you need to load script module that registers handler for it. Do anyone have skills to decipher Lua's license is it compatible with GPLv3 ? Thanks, Vesa Jääskeläinen ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http

Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

2008-09-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
phcoder wrote: I was thinking about the scenario when ide drives are trusted but not USB or removable devices. Cryptographic checksums wouldn't bring much because if attacker can modify harddrive he can also modify GRUB to skip checksum check. Then you password protect it :) Once that is

Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

2008-09-03 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
to something like: (ata0) (pci-X-Y-Z:ata0) (usb-X-Y:scsi0) (pci-X-Y-Z:scsi0) I do not know if those all would be valid, but I hope you get the idea. Alternative would be that you integrate some module to core that validates your system that there is no extra devices or such. Thanks, Vesa

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