Re: What GPL requirements are implied by publishing an ISO with GRUB binaries ?

2017-09-10 Thread SevenBits Tech
While I don't have specific quotes from the GPL to share in regards to this situation, it is my understanding that, yes, you are required to provide the source code used to build the compiled binary. This is because every person who receives the software has the right to the source used to build

Re: [PATCH] Add efi getenv command

2017-01-23 Thread SevenBits
As someone who wrote a similar patch several years ago for a personal project and submitted it to the list, what's the advantage of this patch over the previous ones that have been submitted (other than, I believe, the ability to set the GUID)? On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 7:25 PM Matthew Garrett wrot

Re: Grub get and set efi variables

2015-11-05 Thread SevenBits
On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > 04.11.2015 02:05, Mat Troi пишет: > >> Hi SevenBits, >> >> Thanks for letting me know. Out of curiosity, any particular reason why >> this patch did not get merged? It looks to be a useful feature. >>

Re: Grub get and set efi variables

2015-11-03 Thread SevenBits
On Tuesday, November 3, 2015, Mat Troi wrote: > Hi, > > Searching through google, I see there was an email thread to add a patch > for getting and setting efi variable in GRUB2. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-11/msg00328.html > > However, looking at the tree, it doesn't look

Re: GNU GRUB maintenance

2015-10-07 Thread SevenBits
On Wednesday, October 7, 2015, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko < phco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, all. I'm sorry for not being available to do enough maintenance > for GRUB in last time but I was overbooked. Yet there is a good news. At > Google there is a 20% project and GRUB has been app

Re: IDE compilation

2014-11-19 Thread SevenBits
On Tuesday, November 18, 2014, Michael Heng wrote: > Hello, > > I want to know what a IDE do you all use? I just have download the grub 2 > project. Can you advise me how to setting up eclipse to import as a > project, how can I debug it? > Please, don't post mail in HTML format. That's not goo

Re: GRUB booting Mac OS X (xnu)

2014-10-24 Thread SevenBits
On Friday, October 24, 2014, Chris Murphy wrote: > We need to re-evaluate how GRUB will boot OS X for the following reasons: > > 1. Apple OS X 10.10 (just released) now by default converts for existing, > and new installs, the partition to use their "LVM-like" technology, called > Core Storage. N

Re: Most recent GRUB repository?

2014-07-15 Thread SevenBits
their own branches rather than master, and are merged when complete. — SevenBits > > Thanks, > > Curtis > > > > ___ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel sign

Re: Accessing UEFI variables from GRUB

2014-07-08 Thread SevenBits
On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > В Wed, 9 Jul 2014 01:14:58 + > Michael Mohr > пишет: > > > Good evening; > > > > Is it possible to read EFI variables from grub-efi (i.e. grubx64.efi) > via the configuration file? I would like to change the behavior of a > server (i.e. boo

Re: GRUB 2 design document

2014-06-27 Thread SevenBits
On Jun 27, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Wenwei Weng wrote: > hello, I'm new to GRUB 2. Since this is re-design totally from scratch, I > wonder where can I find design/architecture document for me to understand the > whole context. Thanks. Wenwei I don’t know if there is one, unfortunately. What do you w

Re: How to exit from linux kernel and return to then grub?

2014-05-18 Thread SevenBits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/18/2014 01:46 PM, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 18.05.2014 19:16, SevenBits wrote: >> On 05/18/2014 01:33 AM, Z C wrote: >>> If I boot into a linux kernel using a grub command like "linux &

Re: How to exit from linux kernel and return to then grub?

2014-05-18 Thread SevenBits
rying, and just simply rebooting the machine is the best way to get to GRUB. If you tell us what are _trying_ to do, i.e what you need this functionality for, perhaps we can suggest an alternative way to achieve what you need. - -- SevenBits P.S: Since this topic is not about the development of

Re: How to exit from linux kernel and return to then grub?

2014-05-18 Thread SevenBits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/18/2014 01:33 AM, Z C wrote: > If I boot into a linux kernel using a grub command like "linux > /vmlinuz; inirtd /initrd; boot", how do I shutdown linux itself > (but do not power off or reboot the computer hardware) and return > back to the grub

Re: Grub development

2014-05-17 Thread SevenBits
On Saturday, May 17, 2014, r jan wrote: > I am a student doing project on grub, I am interested in developing grub. > So please allow me and help me for development of grub. Thankyou > Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "help you". We're certainly not going to write code for you. I'm not a pro

Re: Patch to compile grub2 with Apple compiler

2014-04-08 Thread SevenBits
On Apr 8, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 08.04.2014 14:27, Yves Blusseau wrote: >> >> Le 8 avr. 2014 à 11:00, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > > a écrit : >> >>> >>> On 8 Apr 2014 10:55, "Yves Blusseau" >>

Re: XP, 8.1 and UEFI with grub2?

2014-04-07 Thread SevenBits
On Monday, April 7, 2014, wrote: > Grub Gurus > > Perhaps this is good timing for this > question. I hope I am asking it in the right place. I have been > using Ubuntu and XP multiboot for quite some time and using Ubuntu > more and XP less. With support for XP expiring April 8 I would like >

Re: Patch to compile grub2 with Apple compiler

2014-04-07 Thread SevenBits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/2014 03:52 PM, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 07.04.2014 17:04, SevenBits wrote: >> On Monday, April 7, 2014, Yves Blusseau > <mailto:bluss...@zetam.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >

Re: Patch to compile grub2 with Apple compiler

2014-04-07 Thread SevenBits
On Monday, April 7, 2014, Yves Blusseau wrote: > Hi, > > this is a patch to allow compilation of grub2 with Apple Compiler Haven't looked at it yet, but if it works, I'd be major. Currently I have to build GRUB on Linux when my current development machine is a Mac. This will be a big developmen

Re: troubleshooting boot hang

2014-02-12 Thread SevenBits
On Feb 12, 2014, at 7:13 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Jordan Uggla wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> GRUB 2.00-25 (Fedora 20) booting a 2011 MacbookPro in EFI mode. >>> >>> About 1 in 4 times, I get a boot hang with a particu

Re: Fix serial output for OpenBSD current

2014-02-04 Thread SevenBits
On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:46 PM, Markus Müller wrote: > Am Montag, den 03.02.2014, 18:03 +0100 schrieb Vladimir > 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: >> On 02.02.2014 11:48, Markus Müller wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> attached is a patch that fixes serial console output with OpenBSD >>> current (will be 5.5).

Re: grub2 code

2014-02-02 Thread SevenBits
On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Robert Parnell wrote: > Hi > > I was just looking at the grub2 source code and saw that > > https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/grub2/trusty/view/head:/TODO > < > https://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-branches/ubuntu/trusty/grub2/trusty/view/h

Re: [PATCH] Add linuxefi module

2014-01-21 Thread SevenBits
On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 08:46:48PM -0500, SevenBits wrote: >> On Monday, January 20, 2014, Lubomir Rintel wrote: >>> From: Matthew Garrett >>> >>> This adds linuxefi module that provides a way to load Lin

Re: [PATCH] Add linuxefi module

2014-01-20 Thread SevenBits
On Monday, January 20, 2014, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > From: Matthew Garrett > > This adds linuxefi module that provides a way to load Linux kernel and RAM > disk > image via EFI services with linuxefi and initrdefi commands, analogous to > linux > and initrd commands. Why? What's wrong with the

Re: conflicting types for 'grub_list_push' on MinGW (include loop)

2014-01-18 Thread SevenBits
On Jan 18, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 15.01.2014 19:14, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >> + * Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > please preserve copyright years when copying code around (just copying > whole string and adding 2104 is fine) I

Re: [PATCH] Add apple_set_os command

2014-01-07 Thread SevenBits
On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:19 AM, andr...@heider.io wrote: > Am 2014-01-03 19:38, schrieb SevenBits: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> On 01/03/2014 01:46 AM, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >>> On 31.12.2013 00:11, SevenBits

Re: [PATCH] Add apple_set_os command

2014-01-03 Thread SevenBits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2014 01:46 AM, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 31.12.2013 00:11, SevenBits wrote: >> On Monday, December 30, 2013, Andreas Heider wrote: >> >> The EFI on current macbooks configures hardw

Re: [PATCH] Add apple_set_os command

2014-01-03 Thread SevenBits
On Friday, January 3, 2014, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 31.12.2013 00:11, SevenBits wrote: > > On Monday, December 30, 2013, Andreas Heider wrote: > > > > The EFI on current macbooks configures hardware differently depending > >

Re: [PATCH] Add apple_set_os command

2013-12-30 Thread SevenBits
On Monday, December 30, 2013, Andreas Heider wrote: > The EFI on current macbooks configures hardware differently depending > on wether it is booting Mac OS X or a different os, for example > disabling the internal GPU completely on some models. > > Mac OS X identifies itself using a custom EFI pr

Re: Built-in module

2013-12-04 Thread SevenBits
Yes, have a look at the grub-mkimage command. On Wednesday, December 4, 2013, Trinh Van Thanh wrote: > Hi all, > > I see that there is many compiled modules in /boot/grub/. When necessary, > it can load by using "insmod" command. But I want to integrate some modules > into grub. Is this possible?

Re: Proposition for Add-on

2013-12-01 Thread SevenBits
typically put the patch in the body of your message without formatting. One of the head people on the project will then review it and see if it's worth including. I'm new here myself, but it's important to learn the proper way to do things. -- SevenBits On Sunday, December 1, 2013

Re: PATCH: added GRUB command to get and set (U)EFI firmware variables

2013-11-28 Thread SevenBits
On Wednesday, November 27, 2013, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 27.11.2013 19:57, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > В Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:44:41 -0500 > > SevenBits > пишет: > > > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA

Re: PATCH: added GRUB command to get and set (U)EFI firmware variables

2013-11-27 Thread SevenBits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/2013 07:22 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 25.11.2013 23:28, SevenBits wrote: >> >> On 11/25/2013 05:07 PM, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko >> wrote: >>> On 25.11.

Re: Loading OS/X 10.7 by grub x86_64-efi fails

2013-11-27 Thread SevenBits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2013 01:26 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > ? Fri, 10 May 2013 14:18:42 +0200 > Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko ?: > >> On 09.05.2013 20:32, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >> >>> I have MacBook (Pro?) 3.1 with OS/X 10.7. I installed as secon

Re: PATCH: added GRUB command to get and set (U)EFI firmware variables

2013-11-25 Thread SevenBits
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/2013 05:07 PM, Vladimir '?-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 25.11.2013 23:03, SevenBits wrote: >> >> Thanks for your quick reply. >> >> I just have a couple of questions. How do you prefer I allow t

Re: PATCH: added GRUB command to get and set (U)EFI firmware variables

2013-11-25 Thread SevenBits
mean that there should be a function to set an integer, one to set a boolean, etc? Regarding the patch format, I'll tidy that up and send a proper one. - -- SevenBits On 11/25/2013 04:41 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > please resend as proper and not as reverse patc

PATCH: added GRUB command to get and set (U)EFI firmware variables

2013-11-25 Thread SevenBits
#x27; statement and scripting capability to allow unique booting capabilities based on whether, for example, secure boot is enabled or the (U)EFI firmware is in setup mode. Have a look and let me know what you think! The patch follows. -- SevenBits diff --git a/grub/grub-core/Makefile.core.def b

Re: 2.02 Release roadmap

2013-11-25 Thread SevenBits
It is too late, then, to submit a patch adding a new command to GRUB? I've been meaning to submit it but have been busy... it's already done and everything, just want to see if I can get upstream. :) On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko < phco...@gmail.com> wrot

Feature Request: add a command to get/set (U)EFI firmware variables

2013-11-12 Thread SevenBits
.. if [ ${firmware_version} == 'Apple' ]; then linux ... initrd ... else linux ... initrd ... fi I'm fluent in C, am somewhat knowledgeable of the (U)EFI system, and am not afraid to modify GRUB's source code. What d