feature request: serial port I/O

1999-08-12 Thread Istvan Marko
I have just tried the 0.5.92 and it works great, even with the stage1.5 stuff. The stage2 simulator is wonderful, it makes life so much easier. Please keep up the good work! The request: Are there any plans to make GRUB controllable from the serial port? This would be an important feature for t

Re: some changes to stage2/char_io.c

1999-08-12 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Ashutosh S. Rajekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: some changes to stage2/char_io.c Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 01:01:59 -0500 (GMT) > Attached is the unified diff patch. I can't access the ChangeLog > file, due to the wierd Internet software I have to use, so I am including > the diff

Re: some changes to stage2/char_io.c

1999-08-12 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
Hello, On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > When you enhance and/or fix GNU GRUB, please send the patch to gnu.org>. Do not forget to write your changes to ChangeLog; That helps us > to understand your changes correctly. And it is preferable that your patch > is the unified format. Ju

Re: some changes to stage2/char_io.c

1999-08-12 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: "Ashutosh S. Rajekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: some changes to stage2/char_io.c Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:17:33 -0500 (GMT) > I have applied some cosmetic changes to the string functions > grub_strXXX() in the file stage2/char_io.c, with some cleaner and > straight-forward code. A

some changes to stage2/char_io.c

1999-08-12 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
Hello, I have applied some cosmetic changes to the string functions grub_strXXX() in the file stage2/char_io.c, with some cleaner and straight-forward code. Attached is the patch. There is a declaration of "init_cmdline()" in shared.h, but I couldn't find the definition of the f

Re: stage1_lba trouble

1999-08-12 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Mark Lundeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: stage1_lba trouble Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:40:49 -0700 (PDT) > It looks like it can access all of the drive. I assume that this applies > to reading and writing calls as well? Yes, of course. -