Hi Daniel, On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:04:53AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > Hi, > > On 2023/9/8 03:57, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > Hi Gao, > > > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 01:46:25PM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: > > > Hi Daniel, > > > > > > On 2023/7/21 01:37, Glenn Washburn wrote: > > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:14:22 +0800 > > > > <zhaoyi...@sjtu.edu.cn> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thank you for the reply! > > > > > > > > > > As Xiang pointed out, we believe that uncompressed support for > > > > > EROFS is still valuable, so I would be very grateful if this > > > > > support could be merged into the GRUB mainline. > > > > > > > > Yes, I believe this will get merged into master. The question is > > > > "when", after or before release. Now that I know that the compression is > > > > on a per-file basis and so this version can still be widely used (with > > > > the condition that the kernel and initrd are uncompressed by EROFS), I > > > > am in support of having this included in the upcoming release. > > > > Ultimately the decision is Daniel's though. > > > > > > ping.. May I ask what's your opinion of EROFS uncompressed support > > > for GRUB. I assume compressed EROFS support needs more work to do, > > > so could we support uncompressed support as the first step since > > > EROFS supports per-file compression configuration? > > > > > > The v4 version is already finished with Glenn's RVB: > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-07/msg00102.html > > > > We are in the GRUB 2.12 release process and busy with it. I will take > > a look at the patch set after the release. Sorry for delay. > > Okay, thanks.
It seems that GRUB 2.12 has been always released. Is it possible to consider this to the upstream? Also EROFS has some more information on the webpages: https://erofs.docs.kernel.org > > > ... > > > > > > > > I have not looked into ZFS's usage of its internal library, nor how > > > > hard it would be to make it a separate module. But I prefer the > > > > separate module approach. Perhaps Daniel can speak to his preferred> > > > > method. > > > > I agree with Glenn, please put/move lz4 compression code to separate module. > > Thanks for the confirmation on this stuff! For EROFS support for compressed files, it still needs some work/review (mainly seperate modules) to do anyway. IMHO, we could address them step-by-step. Thanks, Gao Xiang > > Thanks, > Gao Xiang > > > > > Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel