Re: Fwd: memory probing

2005-05-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* alfred hitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050510 12:23]: anyways, how can u get this from processor also ? The processor has little to nothing to do with this.. it's dependent on the northbridge and southbridge. I vaguely remember see'ing some code where someone on a i386 based plattform but WITHOUT

Re: GRUB vs LinuxBIOS question

2005-12-29 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi Svante, * Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [051229 17:12]: I'm currently reading the mailing list archives on GRUB V2 and LinuxBIOS development. Can somebody please enlighten me on the interfaces between the two development projects. I've only been marginally following grub2 development,

Re: [patch] rename grubof to grub

2006-04-27 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060427 10:49]: What about grubkernel and grub? Or grub.raw and grub? I'd like to try to stay within 8.3 naming for all files, since people will be deploying the end result on FAT filesystems. How about vmgrub for the grub kernel :) ... and put paging on

Re: GRUB 1.95 is released

2006-10-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Vladimir Serbinenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061015 17:36]: Hm. What's the reason for being inconsistent here? If changing the partition naming scheme, I would have thought it'd become hd1,1. But why is the first disk 0 and the first partition 1? Using Linux style names might make sense as

Re: GRUB 1.95 is released

2006-10-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061015 17:41]: It was already discussed plenty of times and the answer is that with BIOS it's impossible to guess the linux's names, so it would just confuse the users Or it may be Solaris or OS/2 Warp or some OS not yet released. I enjoy the amusement

Re: GRUB 1.95 is released

2006-10-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061015 17:35]: * Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061015 16:51]: * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first partition of hd0 is now hd0,1 but not hd0,0. Hm. What's the reason for being inconsistent here? If changing the

Re: GRUB 1.95 is released

2006-10-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061015 16:51]: * Number partitions from 1 instead of 0. For instance, the first partition of hd0 is now hd0,1 but not hd0,0. Hm. What's the reason for being inconsistent here? If changing the partition naming scheme, I would have thought it'd become

Re: [Fwd: Re: [LinuxBIOS] grub2 as payload

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Tristan Gingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061025 21:31]: Right, it should not be that hard to add an IDE driver. You only have to focus on IDE driver development, not too much on integrating it into GRUB. If you are interested, I have written an IDE driver for grub. Not complete but working.

Re: Stack protection via GCC's `-fstack-protector'

2006-11-08 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi, * Samuel Thibault [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061108 23:14]: Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 08 Nov 2006 22:40:54 +0100, a écrit : then cat gnumach-undef-bad; exit 2; else true; fi stack_chk_fail Is it feasible to have the `-fstack-protector' functionality in GNU Mach and GRUB2 (and how to

Re: [Fwd: Re: [LinuxBIOS] grub2 as payload

2006-11-16 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061025 19:41]: - add support for compiling grub2 as an elf image. This is possible already. If the ELF image has specific demands, it will not be hard to make such changes. How do I do this. Running configure and make on a checked out grub2 tree leaves

Re: Does grub2 support background image?

2007-01-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Vesa Jääskeläinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070104 19:28]: Yes, it will support it. All in time. I am currently waiting for my new ADSL connection to get online and then I could continue improving it. Btw. I have a local version that supports background image, but I want (and perhaps others too)

Re: My Summer of Code Project

2007-04-24 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Devils-Hawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070424 22:06]: You should probably have a look at http://www.linuxbios.org/FILO maybe you can salvage something. FILO supports booting from ElTorito bootable CD media, uses 32-bit mode, and it is free of bios calls. Unfortunately its x86 only, although some

Re: [PATCH] make grub2 compile with libc-less crosscompilers

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070519 19:44]: On Saturday 19 May 2007 17:30, Patrick Georgi wrote: I'm now using a cross compiler with target i386-elf, ie. no operating system specification, which works fine so far. With grub2 I had an issue in the configuration process as some

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-30 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070530 15:18]: IOW, no matter who the keys belong to, the problem is there's a component in the hardware I paid for that is hostile to me, which contains keys that I cannot retrieve (good, because of security), and refuses to use the keys on anything I want

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-31 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070531 18:40]: You do not need a TPM based system. Todays BIOSes prohibit flashing anything not signed by the vendor using SMI and hardware lockdown mechanisms. You are locked out already, even though you might not care or know yet. That sounds

Re: Feature Request: Alpha-Linux support.. possible?

2007-06-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Brian Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070615 18:38]: The current DEC Alpha boot loaders MILO and aboot are unmaintained and frequently break with newer tool chains and kernels. I have a machine for aboot, but I don't have a machine for MILO anymore. MILO is still up and running on

Re: 64 Bit Support?

2007-06-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070617 11:26]: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:16:41AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:11:44 -0600, David Broadfoot wrote: I am wondering if there is plans for Grub 2 to be able to be compiled and run in a 64 bit enviroment. I am a part

Re: 64 Bit Support?

2007-06-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Jeroen Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070617 13:03]: Interesting would also be to boot pure 64bit kernels. I think some of the BSDs have their bootloader switch to 64bit long mode, so the kernel does not have to dot this anymore. Maybe grub could do the same thing. To enable long mode you

Re: PowerMac hack breaks Efika

2007-07-02 Thread Stefan Reinauer
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Re: GPL version 3

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070704 21:40]: Hello, I would like to discuss the possibility of migrating to GPL version 3. As you know, GPLv3 has been published, and all GNU software is recommended to migrate from GPLv2 to GPLv3. [..] 1. What are the pros and cons? A discussion

Re: GPL version 3

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Jeroen Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070704 23:10]: Are you sure about this? Given that we've assigned copyright to the FSF, the FSF can decide under which free software license to license that code. So I don't really see why we can't release the same code under GPLv2 or later in GRUB Legacy

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Add multiboot 2 capabilities

2007-07-25 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Marco Gerards [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070725 11:53]: Jerone Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm going to submit a new patch shortly. I'll also check it in. So it will not suffer from code rot :-) Need to make sure some stuff works on ppc then it'll be in. Probably tonight or tomorrow.

Re: [PATCH] ELF program header

2007-10-12 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071012 18:19]: It seems that grub-mkimage generates awkward ELF files, in which the Program header table is at the end of the file instead of right after the ELF header. - Our own ELF loader doesn't like phdroff 0x2000 either, from

Re: [PATCH] ELF program header

2007-10-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071014 14:00]: We tried the same but the patch was a lot bigger, trying to actually leave space in the beginning. Your patch might be enough, that would be really nice. That's the question. Do we really have to add more space, or is that space already

Re: Floating point usage

2008-06-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
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Re: [PATCH] Tidy up 'make' output

2008-06-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
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Re: Idea: elimination of the normal mode

2008-07-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
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Re: Idea: elimination of the normal mode

2008-07-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Stefan Reinauer wrote: Robert Millan wrote: About the duplicated commands, we can create a module minicmd to include the most basic command Then we can't have a rescue shell before heap is initialised and minicmd is loaded. Should we be concerned about

Re: Idea: elimination of the normal mode

2008-07-05 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Stefan Reinauer wrote: Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Idea of the rescue shell is load other modules in case grub itself cannot find them. It provides thin layer of tools so user is able to find them. Personally I would like to keep this functionality in core.img. So

Re: slight oddity in script parser

2008-07-31 Thread Stefan Reinauer
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Re: slight oddity in script parser

2008-07-31 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Bean wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Stefan Reinauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bean wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Patrick Georgi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I forgot this, so sorry for the separate mail: Currently, the parser expects comments to start

Re: [PATCH] cleanup in EFI Linux loader

2008-08-18 Thread Stefan Reinauer
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Re: Dell Media Direct button

2008-08-21 Thread Stefan Reinauer
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Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
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