Re: [PATCH] Use symbol database to maintain module dependence

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
phco...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Bean bean12...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
 phco...@gmail.com wrote:
  symdb code seems to duplicate your list code. Perhaps you could reuse
  the
  file from kernel thus making maintaining easier

 Hi,

 I'm planning to use kern/list.c at first, but there is some issue.
 list.c uses grub_strcmp, which means we need to add kern/misc.c as
 well. But kern/misc.c uses environment and terminal output, etc. I end
 up adding a lot of unrelated stuff just to satisfy the dependence. So
 perhaps it'd be better to keep it simple for now.

 why not just do
 int
 grub_strcmp ()
 {
   return strcmp(...);
 }
 like it's done it other utils?



Hi,

Or perhaps just define macro in header files:

#ifdef GRUB_UTIL
#define grub_strcmp strcmp
#endif

I remember grub legacy used to do this.

 A better solution is to move the string function to a separate source
 file, such as kern/string.c. But this is the subject of another patch.

 Also now I'm looking into compiling of grub2 with Apple's gcc and binutils
 and this patch makes this easier. Was it done in perspective of compiling
 with Apple's tools? Do you work on this? If you do we could share the effort

My original plan for this patch is to lay the foundation for external
module support. I haven't try the apple build tools yet. In fact, I
scratched osx in testing sometime ago, and having find the time to
reinstall it yet.


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Re: truecrypt support in grub ?

2009-05-04 Thread Chip Panarchy
So I've got to use LUKS  FreeOTFE?

Seems a little hard... seeing as the different file-systems I need to
encrypt, including;

Ext3, HFS+, Ext4, NTFS, UFS2  ZFS

Any other drive encryption tools you'd like to suggest, or should I
stick to TrueCrypt (will start using it once all my OSs are working
together)

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote:
 On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 10:47:00AM +1000, Chip Panarchy wrote:
 ^Ah.

 What would you suggest instead, for a free full-drive encryption?

 LUKS

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Re: truecrypt support in grub ?

2009-05-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
loop-aes...

On 5/4/09, Chip Panarchy forumanar...@gmail.com wrote:
 So I've got to use LUKS  FreeOTFE?

  Seems a little hard... seeing as the different file-systems I need to
  encrypt, including;

  Ext3, HFS+, Ext4, NTFS, UFS2  ZFS

  Any other drive encryption tools you'd like to suggest, or should I
  stick to TrueCrypt (will start using it once all my OSs are working
  together)


  On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote:
   On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 10:47:00AM +1000, Chip Panarchy wrote:
   ^Ah.
  
   What would you suggest instead, for a free full-drive encryption?
  
   LUKS
  
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Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader

2009-05-04 Thread BandiPat

Robert Millan wrote:

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 08:03:23PM -0400, BandiPat wrote:
	linux16	/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro resume=/dev/sda4 splash=silent  
vga=794


This means vga=0x31a, aka 16-bit 1280x1024.  Does 24-bit (vga=0x31b) work?

I suspect there's some fuzzy matching here.


===
Thanks Robert for the suggestion.  I had renewed hopes this might work, 
but it would not.  After editing the menuentry to use either the 
vga=0x31b or vga=795, the machine booted to a blinking cursor.  It would 
not go beyond that.


Does that help in determining where maybe the problem lies?  Also, I 
thought both linux16 and vga were deprecated, no longer to be used?


Thanks,
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Re: [PATCH] hfs+ uuid

2009-05-04 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
commited

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org wrote:

 On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:08 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

  Setting two environment variables is undocumented.  I think
  rd_string
  should not be needed.  If you need it due to the script engine
  problems,
  it's better to fix the script engine.
  I'm looking how to do it. The corresponding part to support foo=$bar
  is here but commented out.

 The changes to fs/hfsplus.c look rather uncontroversial.  Maybe you
 could apply that part first?  And then we could deal with the xnu
 related stuff separately.

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Re: [PATCH] hfs+ uuid

2009-05-04 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org wrote:

 On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 12:42 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
  This is a patch to support UUIDs on HFS+. MD5 code is copied from
  Michael Gorven's patch which is copied from libgcrypt nearly verbatim.
  Thanks for Cris for the info about how xnu expects UUID to be

 I suggest that you run all new code through GNU indent.  Spacing in
 32-(n) will probably need to be fixed manually, as it's a preprocessor
 directive.

 Commented out call to to _gcry_burn_stack() should probably be removed.
 I would prefer that we don't use #undef.  Instead, the preprocessor
 defines should use unique names that never need to be redefined.

This part is temporary copied here till Michael Gorven's patch is merged.


 Setting two environment variables is undocumented.  I think rd_string
 should not be needed.  If you need it due to the script engine problems,
 it's better to fix the script engine.

I'm looking how to do it. The corresponding part to support foo=$bar  is
here but commented out.

  At least please mark that hack as
 a hack.

 Perhaps we should consider adding %X support to grub_printf().  I
 realize that it will increase the core slightly, but if it's just a few
 bytes, we could accept it.  Other modules may use it.

 Let me think a bit about it. Unfortunately what seems to be few bytes in a
first glance may be up to 100 bytes once implemented

  Or maybe we could
 have grub_toupper(), perhaps an inline function?

If it's an inline then it's ok.


 Another thing to consider is whether md5 support should be in a separate
 file.  It would make it possible to reuse md5 for other commands.

Actually  md5 is a part of Michael Gorven patch where it's exported nicely
but since his patch is pending I temporary copied it to this file. So I
think it's unnecessary to


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Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:15:13AM -0400, BandiPat wrote:
 Robert Millan wrote:
 On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 08:03:23PM -0400, BandiPat wrote:
 linux16 /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro resume=/dev/sda4 
 splash=silent  vga=794

 This means vga=0x31a, aka 16-bit 1280x1024.  Does 24-bit (vga=0x31b) work?

 I suspect there's some fuzzy matching here.

 ===
 Thanks Robert for the suggestion.  I had renewed hopes this might work,  
 but it would not.  After editing the menuentry to use either the  
 vga=0x31b or vga=795, the machine booted to a blinking cursor.  It would  
 not go beyond that.

What suitable modes does vbeinfo list?

 Does that help in determining where maybe the problem lies?  Also, I  
 thought both linux16 and vga were deprecated, no longer to be used?

vga is deprecated, but we don't have a replacement for it yet.

linux16 will eventually become completely obsolete, but some users
(e.g. you) still need to rely on it, which is why we didn't remove it.

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Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan

Hi all,

Please remember to update copyright lines in files when you commit
copyright significant changes.  As a general rule of thumb, if your
commit modifies/adds more than 10 lines of code it's likely going to
be copyright-significant.  And if in doubt, it's better to err on the
safe side and update it anyway.

It becomes a PITA at the end of each year when the full list of modified
files needs to be checked manually.

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Re: [PATCH] add disk name to scanning debug output

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 04:14:02PM +0200, martin f. krafft wrote:
 Signed-off-by: martin f. krafft madd...@madduck.net
 ---
  disk/raid.c |2 +-
  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/disk/raid.c b/disk/raid.c
 index 2b3130b..8b026cd 100644
 --- a/disk/raid.c
 +++ b/disk/raid.c
 @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ grub_raid_scan_device (int head_only)
struct grub_raid_array array;
struct grub_raid *p;
  
 -  grub_dprintf (raid, Scanning for RAID devices\n);
 +  grub_dprintf (raid, Scanning for RAID devices on disk %s\n, name);
  
disk = grub_disk_open (name);
if (!disk)

Committed, thanks.

Btw next time please include a ChangeLog entry (and make it an inline
attachment).

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Re: [PATCH] hfs+ uuid

2009-05-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:08 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

 Setting two environment variables is undocumented.  I think
 rd_string
 should not be needed.  If you need it due to the script engine
 problems,
 it's better to fix the script engine.
 I'm looking how to do it. The corresponding part to support foo=$bar
 is here but commented out.

The changes to fs/hfsplus.c look rather uncontroversial.  Maybe you
could apply that part first?  And then we could deal with the xnu
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Re: truecrypt support in grub ?

2009-05-04 Thread Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Chip Panarchy forumanar...@gmail.comwrote:

 So I've got to use LUKS  FreeOTFE?

FreeOTFE has a function which allows reading sectors from a device without
authentication. This way the whole application security is blown away (not
like the were a big deal of it, it's windows).  I informed Sarah Dean that
because of this function FreeOTFE is an application which destroys the
security instead of enhancing it. However it looks like she doesn't
understand the gravity of the problem and assumes only a threat of laptop
steal and not much more common threats like viruses or trojans (it is
windows, he-he)


 Seems a little hard... seeing as the different file-systems I need to
 encrypt, including;

 Ext3, HFS+, Ext4, NTFS, UFS2  ZFS

You can encrypt any FS with any full-disk-encryption. The encryption doesn't
care what you put on it.


 Any other drive encryption tools you'd like to suggest, or should I
 stick to TrueCrypt (will start using it once all my OSs are working
 together)

 What you say is quite out of sync with reality. I don't know any program
able to boot two different OSes encrypted with it. (I don't speak about
reading volumes, I speak about booting). Additionally such a setup is less
secure than encrypting every OS separately since if one OS is compomised
it's somewhat contained (not entirely true actually). AFAIK till date noone
was able to boot Darwin or OSX from encrypted volume.
But encrypting every OS on a harddrive is really an overkill. Remember that
encryption only addresses a small set of threats all of them involving
physical access to your hardware. It's not like some marketing employes who
make the people believe that pronouncing the word AES three times a day
makes your computer secure. I doubt that you use more than one or at most
two OSes for regular data work. I suppose the rest is just your experimental
OSes. Encrypting experimental OS is just more headache and waste of
resources. The setup I recommend is:
GPT-partitioned disk:
-BIOS or EFI boot partition holding embeded part of grub or grub.efi
 BIOS partition is typically 1 MiB in size. EFI partition is typically
100MiB in size (but 10 MiB should be enough)
-GRUB /boot partition holding grub modules and linux kernels and initrds.
Optionally also holding information related to booting of other OSes
-Linux root, swap and home on lvm on luks
-Optionally a FAT partition used to transfer data between OSes
-Experimental OSes

And please next time inform yourself before suggesting any feature requests.
Best feature request is the one containing a patch with it. Second best is
the one containing detailed info with it

Anyway this discussion goes away from grub so please don't continue it here.

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Re: [PATCH] improve error messages in grub-setup

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 05:02:33PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
   grub_util_warn() doesn't set any flag that there have been
   warnings.
  
  That's an option, too.  But it would preclude the possibility of issuing
  warnings for which we don't want to require --force (i.e. lesser evils).
  I wonder if that would be a problem?
 
 We can decide it when we know what the lesser evils are.  I'm fine with
 your patch.

Alright then, I checked it in.

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Re: [PATCH] prevent duplicated entries due to symlinks

2009-05-04 Thread Andreas

Pavel Roskin schrieb:

On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 22:51 +0200, Andreas Born wrote:
  
If there's both a symlink and a kernel at which the symlink is pointing 
in the list of detected kernels of 10_linux, two entries are created for 
actually the same kernel. This patch checks for this condition and only 
uses the symlink (usually the wanted behaviour), in case the target of 
the symlink doesn't exist, it uses neither.


Furthermore there may be kernel images named e.g. /boot/vmlinuz, so to 
detect those the patch doesn't require a hyphen in the kernel name.
In this case the sed used to determine the kernel version, won't return 
as expected an empty string. Therefore I replaced it by another one with 
the wanted behaviour.
If the kernel version can be empty we don't want to have a GNU/Linux, 
linux  menuentry. Accordingly this patch adds a check for empty kernel 
version, so that only GNU/Linux will be displayed.



The result will be that we would have an entry without version instead
of an entry with a version.  That's hardly an improvement.  Can you give
an example where it would be useful?
  
You have a symlink named /boot/vmlinuz which points at the current 
kernel version. Now you could of course find out which kernel version 
it's pointing at but that version could change anytime. /boot/vmlinu[zx] 
and /vmlinu[zx] (there should only exist one of them) are the only cases 
I can think of which have no version in their name. So you always know 
that the version-free entry always boots the kernel pointed at by 
/boot/vmlinuz, which is always the current kernel if your distro 
maintains the symlink. I see no regression there.

This is for example my Zenwalk boot entry:
'menuentry Zenwalk GNU/Linux {
   set root=(hd0,3)
   search --fs-uuid --set 408e3e53-d766-4592-bb12-31233bd415c0
   linux16/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 ro  splash=silent 
resume=/dev/sda7 vga=794

   initrd16/boot/initrd.splash
}'
That's the symlink: /boot/vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.6.29.2


  
Finally there's quite a bunch of other names for initrds. This patch 
adds support for initrd.gz and initrd.splash. Both initrd.img and 
initrd.gz become or were yet supported with two different version 
positions and without version at all. For initrd.splash this isn't 
needed because it's not kernel version dependent.



Please specify where those names are used.  Can you give the
distribution name and version where such names are used?
  
Zenwalk, Slackware for example. I think more Slackware derivates are 
using it too.

What is initrd.splash?  Why does it need to be handled like initrd and
why is it always version independent?  Again, where is it used?

  
initrd.splash is used by Zenwalk (others too) it contains only the data 
of one or multiple bootsplashes as returned by the splash command. 
It's used by bootsplash and doesn't contain any files, modules, etc.
The version independence is quite self-explaining now, I think. Unless 
bootsplash support was removed it works for any kernel version. And even 
if bootsplash support is removed it does no harm to load it.


Is it understandable now?

Andreas



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Re: Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
Hi,

Well, I just write a small script to detect files that needs updating.
BTW, I use git to access the svn repository:

grep -lie Copyright (C).*\(199[0-9]\|200[^9]\) *Free `git diff
--stat @{2009-01-01}..HEAD 2/dev/null | grep '|' | cut -d\  -f2`
2/dev/null

Here are the result:
Makefile.in
boot/i386/pc/boot.S
bus/usb/ohci.c
bus/usb/uhci.c
bus/usb/usb.c
bus/usb/usbhub.c
bus/usb/usbtrans.c
commands/blocklist.c
commands/cat.c
commands/cmp.c
commands/crc.c
commands/date.c
commands/echo.c
commands/halt.c
commands/help.c
commands/hexdump.c
commands/i386/cpuid.c
commands/i386/pc/halt.c
commands/i386/pc/play.c
commands/i386/pc/pxecmd.c
commands/i386/pc/vbeinfo.c
commands/i386/pc/vbetest.c
commands/ieee1275/suspend.c
commands/ls.c
commands/lsmmap.c
commands/read.c
commands/reboot.c
commands/search.c
commands/sleep.c
commands/test.c
commands/usbtest.c
configure
disk/efi/efidisk.c
disk/fs_uuid.c
disk/i386/pc/biosdisk.c
disk/ieee1275/nand.c
disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c
disk/loopback.c
disk/lvm.c
disk/raid.c
disk/scsi.c
disk/usbms.c
fs/affs.c
fs/afs.c
fs/cpio.c
fs/ext2.c
fs/fshelp.c
fs/hfs.c
fs/hfsplus.c
fs/i386/pc/pxe.c
fs/iso9660.c
fs/jfs.c
fs/minix.c
fs/ntfs.c
fs/reiserfs.c
fs/sfs.c
fs/udf.c
fs/ufs.c
fs/xfs.c
gencmdlist.sh
genfslist.sh
genkernsyms.sh.in
genmk.rb
gensymlist.sh.in
hello/hello.c
hook/datehook.c
include/grub/datetime.h
include/grub/disk.h
include/grub/dl.h
include/grub/efi/api.h
include/grub/efi/efi.h
include/grub/efi/pe32.h
include/grub/elf.h
include/grub/err.h
include/grub/fs.h
include/grub/fshelp.h
include/grub/gpt_partition.h
include/grub/i386/bsd.h
include/grub/i386/efi/loader.h
include/grub/i386/ieee1275/loader.h
include/grub/i386/linux.h
include/grub/i386/pc/biosdisk.h
include/grub/i386/pc/chainloader.h
include/grub/i386/pc/init.h
include/grub/i386/pc/memory.h
include/grub/i386/pci.h
include/grub/i386/pit.h
include/grub/ieee1275/ieee1275.h
include/grub/lib/arg.h
include/grub/memory.h
include/grub/misc.h
include/grub/pci.h
include/grub/powerpc/ieee1275/memory.h
include/grub/sparc64/ieee1275/ieee1275.h
include/grub/sparc64/kernel.h
include/grub/sparc64/libgcc.h
include/grub/symbol.h
include/grub/term.h
include/grub/types.h
include/grub/usb.h
include/grub/usbdesc.h
include/grub/usbtrans.h
include/grub/util/misc.h
include/grub/x86_64/efi/loader.h
kern/device.c
kern/disk.c
kern/dl.c
kern/efi/efi.c
kern/efi/mm.c
kern/fs.c
kern/i386/coreboot/init.c
kern/i386/coreboot/startup.S
kern/i386/efi/startup.S
kern/i386/ieee1275/startup.S
kern/i386/loader.S
kern/i386/pc/init.c
kern/i386/pc/startup.S
kern/ieee1275/ieee1275.c
kern/ieee1275/init.c
kern/ieee1275/mmap.c
kern/ieee1275/openfw.c
kern/main.c
kern/mm.c
kern/powerpc/ieee1275/startup.S
kern/sparc64/dl.c
kern/x86_64/dl.c
lib/arg.c
lib/efi/datetime.c
lib/hexdump.c
lib/i386/datetime.c
loader/efi/appleloader.c
loader/efi/chainloader.c
loader/i386/bsd.c
loader/i386/ieee1275/linux.c
loader/i386/pc/chainloader.c
loader/i386/pc/linux.c
loader/i386/pc/multiboot2.c
loader/multiboot2.c
loader/multiboot_loader.c
loader/powerpc/ieee1275/linux.c
normal/cmdline.c
normal/completion.c
normal/datetime.c
normal/menu_entry.c
normal/misc.c
term/efi/console.c
term/i386/pc/at_keyboard.c
term/i386/pc/console.c
term/i386/pc/serial.c
term/i386/pc/vga_text.c
term/ieee1275/ofconsole.c
term/terminfo.c
util/console.c
util/deviceiter.c
util/elf/grub-mkimage.c
util/grub-emu.c
util/grub-fstest.c
util/grub-mkconfig.in
util/grub-mkdevicemap.c
util/grub-pe2elf.c
util/grub.d/30_os-prober.in
util/hostfs.c
util/i386/pc/grub-install.in
util/i386/pc/grub-mkrescue.in
util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c
util/lvm.c
util/raid.c
util/usb.c
video/readers/jpeg.c
video/readers/png.c
video/readers/tga.c


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 Please remember to update copyright lines in files when you commit
 copyright significant changes.  As a general rule of thumb, if your
 commit modifies/adds more than 10 lines of code it's likely going to
 be copyright-significant.  And if in doubt, it's better to err on the
 safe side and update it anyway.

 It becomes a PITA at the end of each year when the full list of modified
 files needs to be checked manually.

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Re: Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 01:40:02AM +0800, Bean wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Well, I just write a small script to detect files that needs updating.
 BTW, I use git to access the svn repository:
 
 grep -lie Copyright (C).*\(199[0-9]\|200[^9]\) *Free `git diff
 --stat @{2009-01-01}..HEAD 2/dev/null | grep '|' | cut -d\  -f2`
 2/dev/null
 
 Here are the result:
 [...]

Scary... well, unless someone wants to review all of them, I suggest we
just try to keep this in mind.  Hopefully by the end of the year the list
will be shorter :-)

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Re: Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2009, 01:40 +0800 schrieb Bean:

 Here are the result:
 Makefile.in

Makefile.in had curiously 2008,2009,2008.
I just fixed this.

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Re: Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:52:39PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
 On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Bean bean12...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  Well, I just write a small script to detect files that needs updating.
  BTW, I use git to access the svn repository:
 
 With the following script :
 sed s/  Free/,2009  Free/g;  $1  ./tmp
 cp ./tmp $1
 
 xargs and this list I generated a patch to update all these files

Unfortunately they can't be automagically updated.  Technically it has to
be done only when we check-in copyright-significant changes, and there's no
automated way to test that.

It's not such a big deal, but it's good to send a reminder from time to time,
so people (me included! ;-)) keep it in mind.

-- 
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  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all.


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Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 05:32:01PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
 
 See also this new patch.  It restructures the checks so that
 vid_mode == 0 indicates lack of vga= parameter.  For user requesting
 text mode (vga=normal or vga=0) we already have GRUB_LINUX_VID_MODE_NORMAL
 so there's no need to handle both values in GRUB.
 
 It also introduces the GRUB_ASSUME_LINUX_HAS_FB_SUPPORT macro, which allows
 easy override of the fallback to text mode setting.

Committed.

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Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader

2009-05-04 Thread BandiPat

Robert Millan wrote:


===
Thanks Robert for the suggestion.  I had renewed hopes this might work,  
but it would not.  After editing the menuentry to use either the  
vga=0x31b or vga=795, the machine booted to a blinking cursor.  It would  
not go beyond that.


What suitable modes does vbeinfo list?


===
A little help here.  Where do you run this vbeinfo command to get a 
listing of suitable modes?  I am going to load the vbeinfo.mod in the 
grub.cfg, but what after that to get a listing?


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Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader

2009-05-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 14:16 -0400 schrieb BandiPat:

 A little help here.  Where do you run this vbeinfo command to get a 
 listing of suitable modes?  I am going to load the vbeinfo.mod in the 
 grub.cfg, but what after that to get a listing?
 

Just press `c' to get to commandline and type vbeinfo.
Normally you shouldn't ever need to insmod command modules. GRUB should
load them automatically as long as you have /boot/grub/command.lst.
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Re: Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
Hi,

I make some improvement to the script, now it only print files that
contains more than 5 lines of changes, which should be qualified as
significant.

grep -lie Copyright (C).*\(199[0-9]\|200[^9]\) *Free `git diff
--stat @{2009-01-01}..HEAD 2/dev/null | gawk '{ if (($2 == |) 
($3  5)) print $1}'` 2/dev/null

The list:

Makefile.in
bus/usb/ohci.c
bus/usb/uhci.c
bus/usb/usb.c
bus/usb/usbhub.c
bus/usb/usbtrans.c
commands/blocklist.c
commands/cat.c
commands/cmp.c
commands/crc.c
commands/date.c
commands/echo.c
commands/halt.c
commands/help.c
commands/hexdump.c
commands/i386/cpuid.c
commands/i386/pc/halt.c
commands/i386/pc/play.c
commands/i386/pc/pxecmd.c
commands/i386/pc/vbeinfo.c
commands/i386/pc/vbetest.c
commands/ieee1275/suspend.c
commands/ls.c
commands/lsmmap.c
commands/read.c
commands/reboot.c
commands/search.c
commands/sleep.c
commands/test.c
commands/usbtest.c
configure
disk/fs_uuid.c
disk/ieee1275/nand.c
disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c
disk/loopback.c
disk/lvm.c
disk/raid.c
disk/scsi.c
disk/usbms.c
fs/affs.c
fs/afs.c
fs/cpio.c
fs/ext2.c
fs/hfs.c
fs/hfsplus.c
fs/i386/pc/pxe.c
fs/iso9660.c
fs/jfs.c
fs/minix.c
fs/ntfs.c
fs/reiserfs.c
fs/sfs.c
fs/udf.c
fs/ufs.c
fs/xfs.c
genmk.rb
hello/hello.c
include/grub/datetime.h
include/grub/disk.h
include/grub/efi/api.h
include/grub/efi/pe32.h
include/grub/fs.h
include/grub/i386/bsd.h
include/grub/i386/pc/memory.h
include/grub/i386/pci.h
include/grub/ieee1275/ieee1275.h
include/grub/lib/arg.h
include/grub/memory.h
include/grub/misc.h
include/grub/sparc64/ieee1275/ieee1275.h
include/grub/sparc64/kernel.h
include/grub/sparc64/libgcc.h
include/grub/term.h
include/grub/types.h
include/grub/usb.h
include/grub/usbdesc.h
include/grub/usbtrans.h
kern/device.c
kern/disk.c
kern/dl.c
kern/efi/efi.c
kern/i386/coreboot/init.c
kern/i386/efi/startup.S
kern/i386/loader.S
kern/i386/pc/init.c
kern/i386/pc/startup.S
kern/ieee1275/ieee1275.c
kern/ieee1275/openfw.c
kern/main.c
kern/mm.c
kern/sparc64/dl.c
kern/x86_64/dl.c
lib/arg.c
lib/hexdump.c
loader/efi/appleloader.c
loader/efi/chainloader.c
loader/i386/bsd.c
loader/i386/ieee1275/linux.c
loader/i386/pc/chainloader.c
loader/i386/pc/linux.c
loader/multiboot_loader.c
loader/powerpc/ieee1275/linux.c
normal/cmdline.c
normal/completion.c
normal/datetime.c
normal/menu_entry.c
normal/misc.c
term/efi/console.c
term/i386/pc/serial.c
term/terminfo.c
util/console.c
util/deviceiter.c
util/elf/grub-mkimage.c
util/grub-emu.c
util/grub-fstest.c
util/grub-mkdevicemap.c
util/grub-pe2elf.c
util/grub.d/30_os-prober.in
util/hostfs.c
util/i386/pc/grub-install.in
util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c
util/usb.c


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote:
 On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 07:52:39PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
 On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Bean bean12...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hi,
 
  Well, I just write a small script to detect files that needs updating.
  BTW, I use git to access the svn repository:
 
 With the following script :
 sed s/  Free/,2009  Free/g;  $1  ./tmp
 cp ./tmp $1

 xargs and this list I generated a patch to update all these files

 Unfortunately they can't be automagically updated.  Technically it has to
 be done only when we check-in copyright-significant changes, and there's no
 automated way to test that.

 It's not such a big deal, but it's good to send a reminder from time to time,
 so people (me included! ;-)) keep it in mind.

 --
 Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all.


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Re: Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
Hi,

This new script list more information, it helps to decide whether it
need update.

L1=`git diff --stat @{2009-01-01}..HEAD 2/dev/null | gawk '{ if (($2
== |)  ($3  5)) print $1}'`
L2=`grep -lie Copyright (C).*\(199[0-9]\|200[^9]\) *Free $L1 2/dev/null`

git diff --stat @{2009-01-01}..HEAD $L2 2/dev/null

result:
 Makefile.in  |   48 +-
 bus/usb/ohci.c   |  609 ++
 bus/usb/uhci.c   |  676 +++
 bus/usb/usb.c|  263 +
 bus/usb/usbhub.c |  193 +
 bus/usb/usbtrans.c   |  212 +
 commands/blocklist.c |   14 +-
 commands/cat.c   |   12 +-
 commands/cmp.c   |   12 +-
 commands/crc.c   |   14 +-
 commands/date.c  |   19 +-
 commands/echo.c  |   16 +-
 commands/halt.c  |   13 +-
 commands/help.c  |   60 +-
 commands/hexdump.c   |   19 +-
 commands/i386/cpuid.c|   19 +-
 commands/i386/pc/halt.c  |   17 +-
 commands/i386/pc/play.c  |   12 +-
 commands/i386/pc/pxecmd.c|   17 +-
 commands/i386/pc/vbeinfo.c   |   24 +-
 commands/i386/pc/vbetest.c   |   15 +-
 commands/ieee1275/suspend.c  |   11 +-
 commands/ls.c|   64 +-
 commands/lsmmap.c|   17 +-
 commands/read.c  |   13 +-
 commands/reboot.c|   11 +-
 commands/search.c|   32 +-
 commands/sleep.c |   14 +-
 commands/test.c  |  420 ++-
 commands/usbtest.c   |  162 +
 configure| 9612 --
 disk/fs_uuid.c   |   26 +-
 disk/ieee1275/nand.c |   17 +-
 disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c   |  102 +-
 disk/loopback.c  |   18 +-
 disk/lvm.c   |9 +-
 disk/raid.c  |   15 +-
 disk/scsi.c  |   46 +-
 disk/usbms.c |  393 ++
 fs/affs.c|   14 +-
 fs/afs.c |   14 +-
 fs/cpio.c|   56 +-
 fs/ext2.c|  123 +-
 fs/hfs.c |  265 +-
 fs/hfsplus.c |   63 +-
 fs/i386/pc/pxe.c |   10 +-
 fs/iso9660.c |   16 +-
 fs/jfs.c |   14 +-
 fs/minix.c   |   13 +-
 fs/ntfs.c|   16 +-
 fs/reiserfs.c|   12 +-
 fs/sfs.c |   26 +-
 fs/udf.c |   16 +-
 fs/ufs.c |  161 +-
 fs/xfs.c |   14 +-
 genmk.rb |   25 +-
 hello/hello.c|   12 +-
 include/grub/datetime.h  |   48 +
 include/grub/disk.h  |   13 +-
 include/grub/efi/api.h   |   82 +-
 include/grub/efi/pe32.h  |   11 +-
 include/grub/fs.h|   14 +-
 include/grub/i386/bsd.h  |9 +-
 include/grub/i386/pc/memory.h|   40 +-
 include/grub/i386/pci.h  |   35 +
 include/grub/ieee1275/ieee1275.h |   11 +-
 include/grub/lib/arg.h   |   72 +
 include/grub/memory.h|   52 +
 include/grub/misc.h  |6 +-
 include/grub/sparc64/ieee1275/ieee1275.h |   22 +
 include/grub/sparc64/kernel.h|   30 +
 include/grub/sparc64/libgcc.h|   12 +
 include/grub/term.h  |   78 +-
 include/grub/types.h |   22 +-
 include/grub/usb.h   |  207 +
 include/grub/usbdesc.h   |  119 +
 include/grub/usbtrans.h  |  107 +
 kern/device.c|   58 +-
 kern/disk.c  |   11 +-
 kern/dl.c|   30 +-
 kern/efi/efi.c   |   23 +
 kern/i386/coreboot/init.c|   17 +-
 kern/i386/efi/startup.S  |6 +-
 kern/i386/loader.S   |  103 +-
 kern/i386/pc/init.c  |9 +-
 kern/i386/pc/startup.S   |   18 +-
 kern/ieee1275/ieee1275.c |   50 +-
 kern/ieee1275/openfw.c   |  113 +-
 kern/main.c  |   16 +-
 kern/mm.c   

grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan

Hi,

Do we really need to ship a specific utility just to run two commands?

  dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}vbios.bin bs=65536 skip=12 count=1
  dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}int10.bin bs=4 skip=16 count=1

Sounds like user will need to read some documentation in order to figure
out what grub-dumpbios is good for, and what to do with those files, so
why not just document the commands there instead?  (e.g. in the wiki or
so)

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Re: Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
Hi,

git users can add this at the beginning of .git/hooks/pre-commit to
run the copyright update test before committing:

L1=`git diff --cached --stat 2/dev/null | gawk '{ if (($2 == |) 
($3  5)) print $1}'`
L2=`grep -lie Copyright (C).*\(199[0-9]\|200[^9]\) *Free $L1 2/dev/null`

if test ! -z $L2 ; then
echo You should update copyright information for the following files:
git diff --cached --stat $L2 2/dev/null
exit 1
fi

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Bean bean12...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 This new script list more information, it helps to decide whether it
 need update.

 L1=`git diff --stat @{2009-01-01}..HEAD 2/dev/null | gawk '{ if (($2
 == |)  ($3  5)) print $1}'`
 L2=`grep -lie Copyright (C).*\(199[0-9]\|200[^9]\) *Free $L1 2/dev/null`

 git diff --stat @{2009-01-01}..HEAD $L2 2/dev/null

 result:
  Makefile.in                              |   48 +-
  bus/usb/ohci.c                           |  609 ++
  bus/usb/uhci.c                           |  676 +++
  bus/usb/usb.c                            |  263 +
  bus/usb/usbhub.c                         |  193 +
  bus/usb/usbtrans.c                       |  212 +
  commands/blocklist.c                     |   14 +-
  commands/cat.c                           |   12 +-
  commands/cmp.c                           |   12 +-
  commands/crc.c                           |   14 +-
  commands/date.c                          |   19 +-
  commands/echo.c                          |   16 +-
  commands/halt.c                          |   13 +-
  commands/help.c                          |   60 +-
  commands/hexdump.c                       |   19 +-
  commands/i386/cpuid.c                    |   19 +-
  commands/i386/pc/halt.c                  |   17 +-
  commands/i386/pc/play.c                  |   12 +-
  commands/i386/pc/pxecmd.c                |   17 +-
  commands/i386/pc/vbeinfo.c               |   24 +-
  commands/i386/pc/vbetest.c               |   15 +-
  commands/ieee1275/suspend.c              |   11 +-
  commands/ls.c                            |   64 +-
  commands/lsmmap.c                        |   17 +-
  commands/read.c                          |   13 +-
  commands/reboot.c                        |   11 +-
  commands/search.c                        |   32 +-
  commands/sleep.c                         |   14 +-
  commands/test.c                          |  420 ++-
  commands/usbtest.c                       |  162 +
  configure                                | 9612 
 --
  disk/fs_uuid.c                           |   26 +-
  disk/ieee1275/nand.c                     |   17 +-
  disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c                   |  102 +-
  disk/loopback.c                          |   18 +-
  disk/lvm.c                               |    9 +-
  disk/raid.c                              |   15 +-
  disk/scsi.c                              |   46 +-
  disk/usbms.c                             |  393 ++
  fs/affs.c                                |   14 +-
  fs/afs.c                                 |   14 +-
  fs/cpio.c                                |   56 +-
  fs/ext2.c                                |  123 +-
  fs/hfs.c                                 |  265 +-
  fs/hfsplus.c                             |   63 +-
  fs/i386/pc/pxe.c                         |   10 +-
  fs/iso9660.c                             |   16 +-
  fs/jfs.c                                 |   14 +-
  fs/minix.c                               |   13 +-
  fs/ntfs.c                                |   16 +-
  fs/reiserfs.c                            |   12 +-
  fs/sfs.c                                 |   26 +-
  fs/udf.c                                 |   16 +-
  fs/ufs.c                                 |  161 +-
  fs/xfs.c                                 |   14 +-
  genmk.rb                                 |   25 +-
  hello/hello.c                            |   12 +-
  include/grub/datetime.h                  |   48 +
  include/grub/disk.h                      |   13 +-
  include/grub/efi/api.h                   |   82 +-
  include/grub/efi/pe32.h                  |   11 +-
  include/grub/fs.h                        |   14 +-
  include/grub/i386/bsd.h                  |    9 +-
  include/grub/i386/pc/memory.h            |   40 +-
  include/grub/i386/pci.h                  |   35 +
  include/grub/ieee1275/ieee1275.h         |   11 +-
  include/grub/lib/arg.h                   |   72 +
  include/grub/memory.h                    |   52 +
  include/grub/misc.h                      |    6 +-
  include/grub/sparc64/ieee1275/ieee1275.h |   22 +
  include/grub/sparc64/kernel.h            |   30 +
  include/grub/sparc64/libgcc.h            |   12 +
  include/grub/term.h                      |   78 +-
  include/grub/types.h                     |   22 +-
  include/grub/usb.h                       |  207 +
  include/grub/usbdesc.h                   |  119 +
  include/grub/usbtrans.h                  |  107 +
  kern/device.c                            |   58 +-
  

Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
Hi,

Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess
there should be no harm adding two files in /boot/grub.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote:

 Hi,

 Do we really need to ship a specific utility just to run two commands?

  dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}vbios.bin bs=65536 skip=12 count=1
  dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}int10.bin bs=4 skip=16 count=1

 Sounds like user will need to read some documentation in order to figure
 out what grub-dumpbios is good for, and what to do with those files, so
 why not just document the commands there instead?  (e.g. in the wiki or
 so)

 --
 Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all.


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Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On 04.05.2009 21:27 Uhr, Robert Millan wrote:
 Hi,

 Do we really need to ship a specific utility just to run two commands?

   dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}vbios.bin bs=65536 skip=12 count=1
   dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}int10.bin bs=4 skip=16 count=1

 Sounds like user will need to read some documentation in order to figure
 out what grub-dumpbios is good for, and what to do with those files, so
 why not just document the commands there instead?  (e.g. in the wiki or
 so)

   
As a side note: On many machines dumping the VGA option rom like that
does not produce good option rom images. Many option roms are
self-modifying and the above method only dumps the modified variants of
the ROMs that are normally not good for POSTing a graphics card
anymore. They're still good for other purposes though I guess.

Stefan

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Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan

Btw, I increased the mode list considerably (using documented modes from
Wikipedia).  Chances that your ultra-weird mode of choice is supported are
much greater now.

There's still no fuzzy matching, though.  I'm not sure if we'd want to do
that at all for vga= modes, since we already do it properly in our video
subsystem.

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Re: Copyright lines not being updated!

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:44:27AM +0800, Bean wrote:
 Hi,
 
 git users can add this at the beginning of .git/hooks/pre-commit to
 run the copyright update test before committing:
 
 L1=`git diff --cached --stat 2/dev/null | gawk '{ if (($2 == |) 
 ($3  5)) print $1}'`
 L2=`grep -lie Copyright (C).*\(199[0-9]\|200[^9]\) *Free $L1 2/dev/null`
 
 if test ! -z $L2 ; then
   echo You should update copyright information for the following files:
   git diff --cached --stat $L2 2/dev/null
   exit 1
 fi

Note that copyright lines don't _always_ have to be updated.  It's
detrimental to do it when there's no need (bogus copyright assertions
weaken the legitimate ones).

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Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:57:17AM +0800, Bean wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess
 there should be no harm adding two files in /boot/grub.

Please don't.  This is really corner case;  I at least wouldn't want GRUB
to install non-free blobs in /boot/grub automagically.

(Those blobs were already in the hardware, so GRUB is not responsible for
them, but still...)

Is this use case documented somewhere (e.g. in the wiki)?  Then users who
need it can learn about the procedure from the same place.  Also ...

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:28:52PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
 As a side note: On many machines dumping the VGA option rom like that
 does not produce good option rom images. Many option roms are
 self-modifying and the above method only dumps the modified variants of
 the ROMs that are normally not good for POSTing a graphics card
 anymore. They're still good for other purposes though I guess.

... as Stefan points out (thanks Stefan) this may not be so
straightforwarded.  I don't think this kind of tweaking is suitable
for a setup that Joe user will get by default.

Btw, if the video rom can be obtained directly from memory, why doesn't
GRUB read it in runtime instead?

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Re: [PATCH] prevent duplicated entries due to symlinks

2009-05-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 18:45 +0200, Andreas wrote:
 Pavel Roskin schrieb:
  The result will be that we would have an entry without version instead
  of an entry with a version.  That's hardly an improvement.  Can you give
  an example where it would be useful?

 You have a symlink named /boot/vmlinuz which points at the current 
 kernel version. Now you could of course find out which kernel version 
 it's pointing at but that version could change anytime.

I see, you want to support loading the default kernel, i.e. the one
pointed to by the symlink.  This way, re-running grub-mkconfig won't be
necessary if a new kernel is installed.

  /boot/vmlinu[zx] 
 and /vmlinu[zx] (there should only exist one of them) are the only cases 
 I can think of which have no version in their name. So you always know 
 that the version-free entry always boots the kernel pointed at by 
 /boot/vmlinuz, which is always the current kernel if your distro 
 maintains the symlink. I see no regression there.

Suppose I have Linux 2.6.29 and 2.6.28.  Your script makes entries for
Linux default and Linux 2.6.28.  Then I install Linux 2.6.30 and
don't run grub-mkconfig.  Then I can boot Linux 2.6.30 and 2.6.28 form
the menu, but not 2.6.29.

Even if I run grub-mkconfig, there is still something I lose.  By
selecting Linux default I still don't know it it's Linux 2.6.30 or
something else.

For me, the convenience of not having to rerun grub-mkconfig doesn't
outweigh the convenience of knowing what I'm loading.

I know, it's have to argue about preferences, but if you want you
changes to be accepted, you need to present a good case.

I would consider placing the kernel pointed to by the vmlinuz link to
the first position of the Linux kernels.  Another approach would be to
have an entry for the link without suppressing any versioned entries.

  Please specify where those names are used.  Can you give the
  distribution name and version where such names are used?

 Zenwalk, Slackware for example. I think more Slackware derivates are 
 using it too.

Let's add support for more versioned names first.  That should be rather
non-controversial.

  What is initrd.splash?  Why does it need to be handled like initrd and
  why is it always version independent?  Again, where is it used?
 

 initrd.splash is used by Zenwalk (others too) it contains only the data 
 of one or multiple bootsplashes as returned by the splash command. 
 It's used by bootsplash and doesn't contain any files, modules, etc.
 The version independence is quite self-explaining now, I think. Unless 
 bootsplash support was removed it works for any kernel version. And even 
 if bootsplash support is removed it does no harm to load it.
 
 Is it understandable now?

It's quite strange that some distro would use the initrd functionality
purely for eye candy.  But if that's true, I'm fine with using
initrd.splash as the last resort if no other initrd image is found.

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Re: [PATCH] Video mode fixes in linux loader

2009-05-04 Thread BandiPat

Robert Millan wrote:

Btw, I increased the mode list considerably (using documented modes from
Wikipedia).  Chances that your ultra-weird mode of choice is supported are
much greater now.

There's still no fuzzy matching, though.  I'm not sure if we'd want to do
that at all for vga= modes, since we already do it properly in our video
subsystem.


=
I'll give them a look as soon as I can get something new built.  I'll 
have to admit, I didn't expect you guys to go to so much trouble, since 
the vga= will be going away anyhow.  We can all live with the fuzzy 
matching for now, until you get the new video subsystem operating 
properly.  Don't put a lot of time into something that won't be used 
much longer, as we can live with things as they are for the moment.


Thanks for everything.
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[PATCH]: Fix ieee1275 iterator regression.

2009-05-04 Thread David Miller

When I converted this code over to user dynamically allocated
strings, I inserted a bug by passing the address of the string
pointer instead of the pointer itself.

Committed.

2009-05-04  David S. Miller  da...@davemloft.net

* kern/ieee1275/openfw.c (grub_children_iterate): Fix string
pointer args to grub_ieee1275_get_property().

diff --git a/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c b/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c
index 7d65023..31296b1 100644
--- a/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c
+++ b/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ grub_children_iterate (char *devpath,
   struct grub_ieee1275_devalias alias;
   grub_ssize_t actual;
 
-  if (grub_ieee1275_get_property (child, device_type, childtype,
+  if (grub_ieee1275_get_property (child, device_type, childtype,
  sizeof childtype, actual))
continue;
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ grub_children_iterate (char *devpath,
 actual))
continue;
 
-  if (grub_ieee1275_get_property (child, name, childname,
+  if (grub_ieee1275_get_property (child, name, childname,
  sizeof childname, actual))
continue;
 


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[PATCH]: Fix sparc64 build.

2009-05-04 Thread David Miller

Please be more careful people.

2009-05-04  David S. Miller  da...@davemloft.net

* conf/sparc64-ieee1275.rmk: Fix build due to missing '\'.

--- conf/sparc64-ieee1275.rmk   (revision 2184)
+++ conf/sparc64-ieee1275.rmk   (revision 2187)
@@ -113,12 +113,12 @@
kern/device.c kern/disk.c kern/dl.c kern/elf.c kern/env.c   \
kern/err.c kern/file.c kern/fs.c kern/loader.c kern/main.c  \
kern/misc.c kern/parser.c kern/partition.c kern/reader.c\
-   kern/rescue_reader.c kern/rescue_parser.c
+   kern/rescue_reader.c kern/rescue_parser.c   \
kern/term.c fs/fshelp.c \
kern/list.c kern/handler.c  \
lib/arg.c normal/cmdline.c  \
normal/completion.c \
-   normal/main.c normal/menu.c \
+   normal/main.c normal/menu.c \
normal/menu_text.c  \
normal/menu_entry.c normal/menu_viewer.c normal/misc.c  \
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[PATCH]: Fix hangs and stalls on sparc64

2009-05-04 Thread David Miller

1) If there isn't a CDROM in the drive, trying to do an
   ieee1275 open() on a cdroom device hangs nearly indefinitely.

2) If you try to open the bare device ide/disk for example (with
   no @X,Y ID selector) this hangs for 5 seconds then spits out
   ugly errors about not being able to read disk labels etc.

So bypass these cases for now, we're only really interested in
the explicitly listed aliases anyways.

As for cdrom grub2 booting, I have some plans for this and I will
look into them after I get some feedback about some details of
OpenBoot from one of my engineering contacts at Sun.

Committed.

2009-05-04  David S. Miller  da...@davemloft.net

* disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c (grub_ofdisk_iterate): Bypass cdrom
devices, and do not traverse down under controller nodes.

Index: disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c
===
--- disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c  (revision 2185)
+++ disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c  (working copy)
@@ -106,13 +106,9 @@
}
}
 
-  if (! grub_strcmp (alias-type, block))
+  if (! grub_strcmp (alias-type, block) 
+ grub_strcmp (alias-name, cdrom))
ret = hook (alias-name);
-  else if ((! grub_strcmp (alias-type, scsi))
-  || (! grub_strcmp (alias-type, ide))
-  || (! grub_strcmp (alias-type, ata)))
-   /* Search for block-type children of these bus controllers.  */
-   ret = grub_children_iterate (alias-name, dev_iterate);
   return ret;
 }
 


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[PATCH]: IEEE1275 path name escaping...

2009-05-04 Thread David Miller

Ok, finally GRUB works also on my workstation.

These are the changes that allow GRUB to properly handle
, characters in OF path names.

As we discussed about a month ago, when a , appears in an
OF path name we escape it with \.

So all of the real work is escaping OF paths as they are given
to GRUB, and then un-escaping them when ofdisk tries to open
them.

Committed.

PS: I plan to spend the next few days testing what we have now on
a variety of sparc64 systems to make sure all of the most obvious
problems get shaken out.

2009-05-04  David S. Miller  da...@davemloft.net

* disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c (compute_dev_path): New.
(grub_ofdisk_open): Use it to un-escape , characters.
* kern/disk.c (find_part_sep): New.
(grub_disk_open): Use it to find the first non-escaped ','
character in the disk name.
* util/ieee1275/devicemap.c (escape_of_path): New.
(grub_util_emit_devicemap_entry): Use it.
* util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-install.in: Update script to
strip partition specifiers properly by not triggering on
'\' escaped ',' characters.

Index: disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c
===
--- disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c  (revision 2188)
+++ disk/ieee1275/ofdisk.c  (working copy)
@@ -115,6 +115,38 @@
   return grub_devalias_iterate (dev_iterate);
 }
 
+static char *
+compute_dev_path (const char *name)
+{
+  char *devpath = grub_malloc (grub_strlen (name) + 2);
+  char *p, c;
+
+  if (!devpath)
+return NULL;
+
+  /* Un-escape commas. */
+  p = devpath;
+  while ((c = *name++) != '\0')
+{
+  if (c == '\\'  *name == ',')
+   {
+ *p++ = ',';
+ name++;
+   }
+  else
+   *p++ = c;
+}
+
+  if (! grub_ieee1275_test_flag (GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_NO_PARTITION_0))
+{
+  *p++ = ':';
+  *p++ = '0';
+}
+  *p++ = '\0';
+
+  return devpath;
+}
+
 static grub_err_t
 grub_ofdisk_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk)
 {
@@ -126,14 +158,10 @@
   char prop[64];
   grub_ssize_t actual;
 
-  devpath = grub_strndup (name, grub_strlen (name) + 2);
+  devpath = compute_dev_path (name);
   if (! devpath)
 return grub_errno;
 
-  /* To access the complete disk add `:0'.  */
-  if (! grub_ieee1275_test_flag (GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_NO_PARTITION_0))
-grub_strcat (devpath, :0);
-
   op = ofdisk_hash_find (devpath);
   if (!op)
 op = ofdisk_hash_add (devpath);
Index: kern/disk.c
===
--- kern/disk.c (revision 2185)
+++ kern/disk.c (working copy)
@@ -215,10 +215,28 @@
   return 0;
 }
 
+/* Return the location of the first ',', if any, which is not
+   escaped by a '\'.  */
+static const char *
+find_part_sep (const char *name)
+{
+  const char *p = name;
+  char c;
+
+  while ((c = *p++) != '\0')
+{
+  if (c == '\\'  *p == ',')
+   p++;
+  else if (c == ',')
+   return p - 1;
+}
+  return NULL;
+}
+
 grub_disk_t
 grub_disk_open (const char *name)
 {
-  char *p;
+  const char *p;
   grub_disk_t disk;
   grub_disk_dev_t dev;
   char *raw = (char *) name;
@@ -238,7 +256,7 @@
   if (! disk-name)
 goto fail;
   
-  p = grub_strchr (name, ',');
+  p = find_part_sep (name);
   if (p)
 {
   grub_size_t len = p - name;
Index: util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-install.in
===
--- util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-install.in   (revision 2185)
+++ util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-install.in   (working copy)
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@
 grub_drive=`$grub_probe --target=drive --device ${grub_device}`
 
 # Strip partition number
-install_drive=`echo ${install_drive} | sed -e s/,[0-9]*//g`
-grub_drive=`echo ${grub_drive} | sed -e s/,[0-9]*//g`
+install_drive=`echo ${install_drive} | sed -e s/\([^\]\),[0-9]*/\1/g`
+grub_drive=`echo ${grub_drive} | sed -e s/\([^\]\),[0-9]*/\1/g`
 if [ x${grub_drive} != x${install_drive} ] ; then
 uuid=`$grub_probe --target=fs_uuid --device ${grub_device}`
 if [ x${uuid} = x ] ; then
Index: util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-setup.c
===
--- util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-setup.c  (revision 2185)
+++ util/sparc64/ieee1275/grub-setup.c  (working copy)
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
  * device.  It also needs to know the initial block number of
  * 'core' (which is 'diskboot' concatenated with 'kernel' and
  * all the modules, this is created by grub-mkimage).  This resulting
- * 'boot' image is 512 bytes in size and is placed in the first block
+ * 'boot' image is 512 bytes in size and is placed in the second block
  * of a partition.
  *
  * The initial 'diskboot' block acts as a loader for the actual GRUB
@@ -100,6 +100,28 @@
   fflush (stdout);
 }
 
+static char *compute_dest_ofpath (const char *dest)
+{
+  int len = strlen (dest);
+  char *res, *p, c;
+
+  res = xmalloc (len);
+  p = res;
+  while ((c = 

[PATCH] Provide grub_dl_ref() and grub_dl_unref() for GRUB_UTIL

2009-05-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello!

The GRUB code is full of constructs like

#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
  grub_dl_ref (my_mod);
#endif

It's better to avoid having source files littered with preprocessor
conditionals.  This patch implements grub_dl_ref() and grub_dl_unref()
as inline functions when GRUB_UTIL is defined.

I'm not using the unused attribute to match the existing signature of
those functions.

ChangeLog:
* include/grub/dl.h [GRUB_UTIL]: Provide inline implementations
of grub_dl_ref() and grub_dl_unref().  Remove preprocessor
conditionals around all callers.

diff --git a/commands/parttool.c b/commands/parttool.c
index b4cbf00..58751ca 100644
--- a/commands/parttool.c
+++ b/commands/parttool.c
@@ -46,10 +46,8 @@ grub_parttool_register(const char *part_name,
   struct grub_parttool *cur;
   int nargs = 0;
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   if (! parts)
 grub_dl_ref (mymod);
-#endif
 
   cur = (struct grub_parttool *) grub_malloc (sizeof (struct grub_parttool));
   cur-next = parts;
@@ -89,10 +87,8 @@ grub_parttool_unregister (int handle)
prev = cur;
cur = cur-next;
   }
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   if (! parts)
 grub_dl_unref (mymod);
-#endif
 }
 
 static grub_err_t
diff --git a/fs/affs.c b/fs/affs.c
index 4ddc347..8b7bc02 100644
--- a/fs/affs.c
+++ b/fs/affs.c
@@ -104,9 +104,7 @@ struct grub_affs_data
   int htsize;
 };
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
 static grub_dl_t my_mod;
-#endif
 
 
 static grub_disk_addr_t
@@ -392,9 +390,7 @@ grub_affs_open (struct grub_file *file, const char *name)
   struct grub_affs_data *data;
   struct grub_fshelp_node *fdiro = 0;
   
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_ref (my_mod);
-#endif
   
   data = grub_affs_mount (file-device-disk);
   if (!data)
@@ -419,9 +415,7 @@ grub_affs_open (struct grub_file *file, const char *name)
 grub_free (fdiro);
   grub_free (data);
   
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_unref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   return grub_errno;
 }
@@ -432,9 +426,7 @@ grub_affs_close (grub_file_t file)
 {
   grub_free (file-data);
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_unref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   return GRUB_ERR_NONE;
 }
@@ -477,9 +469,7 @@ grub_affs_dir (grub_device_t device, const char *path,
   return hook (filename, info);
 }
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_ref (my_mod);
-#endif
   
   data = grub_affs_mount (device-disk);
   if (!data)
@@ -497,9 +487,7 @@ grub_affs_dir (grub_device_t device, const char *path,
 grub_free (fdiro);
   grub_free (data);
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_unref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   return grub_errno;
 }
@@ -512,9 +500,7 @@ grub_affs_label (grub_device_t device, char **label)
   struct grub_affs_file file;
   grub_disk_t disk = device-disk;
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_ref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   data = grub_affs_mount (disk);
   if (data)
@@ -533,9 +519,7 @@ grub_affs_label (grub_device_t device, char **label)
   else
 *label = 0;
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_unref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   grub_free (data);
 
@@ -557,9 +541,7 @@ static struct grub_fs grub_affs_fs =
 GRUB_MOD_INIT(affs)
 {
   grub_fs_register (grub_affs_fs);
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   my_mod = mod;
-#endif
 }
 
 GRUB_MOD_FINI(affs)
diff --git a/fs/afs.c b/fs/afs.c
index 90d8864..d710095 100644
--- a/fs/afs.c
+++ b/fs/afs.c
@@ -175,9 +175,7 @@ struct grub_afs_data
   struct grub_fshelp_node diropen;
 };
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
 static grub_dl_t my_mod;
-#endif
 
 static grub_afs_off_t
 grub_afs_run_to_num (struct grub_afs_sblock *sb,
@@ -505,9 +503,7 @@ grub_afs_open (struct grub_file *file, const char *name)
   struct grub_afs_data *data;
   struct grub_fshelp_node *fdiro = 0;
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_ref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   data = grub_afs_mount (file-device-disk);
   if (! data)
@@ -532,9 +528,7 @@ fail:
 grub_free (fdiro);
   grub_free (data);
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_unref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   return grub_errno;
 }
@@ -553,9 +547,7 @@ grub_afs_close (grub_file_t file)
 {
   grub_free (file-data);
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_unref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   return GRUB_ERR_NONE;
 }
@@ -583,9 +575,7 @@ grub_afs_dir (grub_device_t device, const char *path,
   return hook (filename, info);
 }
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_ref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   data = grub_afs_mount (device-disk);
   if (! data)
@@ -603,9 +593,7 @@ grub_afs_dir (grub_device_t device, const char *path,
 grub_free (fdiro);
   grub_free (data);
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_unref (my_mod);
-#endif
 
   return grub_errno;
 }
@@ -623,9 +611,7 @@ static struct grub_fs grub_afs_fs = {
 GRUB_MOD_INIT (afs)
 {
   grub_fs_register (grub_afs_fs);
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   my_mod = mod;
-#endif
 }
 
 GRUB_MOD_FINI (afs)
diff --git a/fs/cpio.c b/fs/cpio.c
index bedd65e..7a49fc1 100644
--- a/fs/cpio.c
+++ b/fs/cpio.c
@@ -74,9 +74,7 @@ struct grub_cpio_data
   grub_uint32_t size;
 };
 
-#ifndef GRUB_UTIL
 static grub_dl_t my_mod;
-#endif
 
 static grub_err_t
 grub_cpio_find_file (struct grub_cpio_data *data, char **name,
@@ -192,9 +190,7 @@ grub_cpio_dir (grub_device_t device, 

Re: [PATCH] Provide grub_dl_ref() and grub_dl_unref() for GRUB_UTIL

2009-05-04 Thread David Miller
From: Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:13:24 -0400

 Hello!
 
 The GRUB code is full of constructs like
 
 #ifndef GRUB_UTIL
   grub_dl_ref (my_mod);
 #endif
 
 It's better to avoid having source files littered with preprocessor
 conditionals.  This patch implements grub_dl_ref() and grub_dl_unref()
 as inline functions when GRUB_UTIL is defined.
 
 I'm not using the unused attribute to match the existing signature of
 those functions.
 
 ChangeLog:
   * include/grub/dl.h [GRUB_UTIL]: Provide inline implementations
   of grub_dl_ref() and grub_dl_unref().  Remove preprocessor
   conditionals around all callers.

Change looks great, but probably you want to explicitly mention
all of the C files where you got rid of the CPP conditional
tests.



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Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread step21
It is kinda documented on ubuntu-forums I think ... and maybe on the
list. (here) When ppl were either asked to test it or reported their
findings. I think the main use case is booting linux directly from
efi, without bios emulation mode/legacy mode. This primarily applies
to macs, though it might apply to non-mac efi machines too.
Concerning Joe User: If someone really wants to install linux on
their mac/efi machine they're likely o.k. to run a shell script to get
a binary blob (if they want graphics accel that is)
As I see it the main reason to put this in a script is really that it
saves you unncessary trips to the wiki or other documentation sources,
where you'd end up copy n' pasting the command anyway.
So from an end user perspective, I'd think it'd be nice to keep it.
If/why it can't be read by grub directly I don't know. Most likely I
think because it needs a properly initialized video bios to work,
which is not present when grub is active.


 Is this use case documented somewhere (e.g. in the wiki)?  Then users who
 need it can learn about the procedure from the same place.  Also ...

 On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:28:52PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
 As a side note: On many machines dumping the VGA option rom like that
 does not produce good option rom images. Many option roms are
 self-modifying and the above method only dumps the modified variants of
 the ROMs that are normally not good for POSTing a graphics card
 anymore. They're still good for other purposes though I guess.

 ... as Stefan points out (thanks Stefan) this may not be so
 straightforwarded.  I don't think this kind of tweaking is suitable
 for a setup that Joe user will get by default.

 Btw, if the video rom can be obtained directly from memory, why doesn't
 GRUB read it in runtime instead?

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Re: [PATCH] Provide grub_dl_ref() and grub_dl_unref() for GRUB_UTIL

2009-05-04 Thread Pavel Roskin

Quoting David Miller da...@davemloft.net:


Change looks great, but probably you want to explicitly mention
all of the C files where you got rid of the CPP conditional
tests.


OK, will do.

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Re: grub-dumpbios

2009-05-04 Thread Bean
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote:
 On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:57:17AM +0800, Bean wrote:
 Hi,

 Perhaps we could incorporate them in grub-update/grub-install, I guess
 there should be no harm adding two files in /boot/grub.

 Please don't.  This is really corner case;  I at least wouldn't want GRUB
 to install non-free blobs in /boot/grub automagically.

 (Those blobs were already in the hardware, so GRUB is not responsible for
 them, but still...)

 Is this use case documented somewhere (e.g. in the wiki)?  Then users who
 need it can learn about the procedure from the same place.  Also ...


Hi,

I've documented the usage of grub-dumpbios in wiki page:

http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

The commands can be placed there as well. I personally doesn't mind,
but perhaps it would be easier for casual user to use a command
instead of typing the dd's directly.

 On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:28:52PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
 As a side note: On many machines dumping the VGA option rom like that
 does not produce good option rom images. Many option roms are
 self-modifying and the above method only dumps the modified variants of
 the ROMs that are normally not good for POSTing a graphics card
 anymore. They're still good for other purposes though I guess.

 ... as Stefan points out (thanks Stefan) this may not be so
 straightforwarded.  I don't think this kind of tweaking is suitable
 for a setup that Joe user will get by default.

 Btw, if the video rom can be obtained directly from memory, why doesn't
 GRUB read it in runtime instead?

Actually, the modified rom is what we need, as it contains information
such as DDC table which is detected on POST, the original rom is not
very useful in this respect.

A better approach would be to fetch the rom from pci, then emulate the
POST process in grub2. But this need to port code from x86emu.


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  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
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