> [I send this to bug-hurd as well, since I saw an inadequqte post by
> Roland on bug-hurd.]
It's your policy that is questionable. The new GRUB is not usable in
production, yet the old GRUB is frozen too early.
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> Well, the user would have to determine the block list notation of a
> partition manually. Note that gnumach is not recognized by GRUB
> specifically, so GRUB has no opportunity to pass any gnumach-specific
> argument automatically. Thus, if Hurd requires that the user adds
> information on a roo
Here's a request for a feature that I just decided I'm too lazy to
implement myself tonight. It would be helpful for Hurd hacking if GRUB had
a new command `listblocks' (or pick any name) that would be like `cat'
except that rather than reading the file's contents, it should print out a
block lis
> Why do you need to check if paddr is non-zero? Doesn't any linker
> set it properly?
I saw some comments in binutils suggesting there are some broken old
linkers that don't set it. Certainly current GNU tools do, so it doesn't
really need to be checked.
mapping memory mapping (as e.g. newer linux kernels do). (Obviously the
kernel has to deal with being loaded at the requested physical address with
paging off, and is responsible itself for setting up its virtual mapping.)
1999-10-16 Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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