On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:35:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Why is this needed? I'm not sure if it's good to exploit this > > "unreliability" > > > > feature that fat provides us ;-) > > > > > > On EFI, the prefix is extracted from an EFI path, whose case may not match > > > the FAT entries. > > > > Can you be more specific about this? What do the specs say? We wrote > > /boot/grub ourselves via grub-install; is an EFI-compliant firmware > > allowed to actively mess up case in paths we provided? > > On EFI, we don't really know where grub is stored. There is a filesystem > layout convention we'd better to follow. As a consequence, we extract the > path from an EFI structure (I didn't write this code - it's in the EFI common > code).
What would you think of case-insensitive search in grub_efi_set_prefix() ? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel