Re: [PATCH] set correct gcc version in INSTALL

2005-08-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:44 AM, Vincent Guffens wrote: The first reference I could find in the gcc doc about unnamed union was in 3.1.1, http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.1.1/gcc/Unnamed- Fields.html#Unnamed%20Fields If someone is however interrested, I have a version of grub (at least 6

Re: [PATCH] mmap support and x86_64 detection

2005-08-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: On Monday 15 August 2005 00:27, Ruslan Nikolaev wrote: Yesterday I sent patch for mmap support and x86_64 detection. What do you think about? I need to known about it becuase I'll be busy this week... Ruslan, I would ask for a different

Re: [PATCH] mmap support and x86_64 detection

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 15 August 2005 00:27, Ruslan Nikolaev wrote: > Yesterday I sent patch for mmap support and x86_64 detection. What do you > think about? I need to known about it becuase I'll be busy this week... The detection code should not be a part of the kernel. You can do this only protected mode,

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Monday 15 August 2005 00:54, Douglas Wade Needham wrote: > I agree that we should not continue to think about improvements, etc. > However, if we are talking alpha/beta/rc stages, then we should be > talking about a release branch, into which we only put controlled > changes. Otherwise, we will

Re: committers should subscribe to commit-grub

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 23:05, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > But I assume you are talking about my commits. I do receive error > message about them every time and I have reported it to savannah > administrators and they are investigating it. Some problems with UTF-8 > characters in my name or somethi

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Douglas Wade Needham
Quoting Yoshinori K. Okuji ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sunday 14 August 2005 15:29, Douglas Wade Needham wrote: > > BTW...If 1.9 is supposed to be indicating that we are nearing a 2.0 > > release, I don't think that now would be the time for such a major > > change. After nearly 30 years of programm

Re: [PATCH] mmap support and x86_64 detection

2005-08-14 Thread Ruslan Nikolaev
Hi!   Yesterday I sent patch for mmap support and x86_64 detection. What do you think about? I need to known about it becuase I'll be busy this week...   Ruslan. Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-deve

Re: vesafb terminal for testing.

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 23:48, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > As far I know, GRUB 2 doesn't support dynamic loading of function entry > points, instead there are only two predefined entry points that can be > called from modules so there has to be some interface for those if they > are not implemented

Re: vesafb terminal for testing.

2005-08-14 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: > Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > >> I can try to draft out features that I think is needed and then we can >> see what is still missing and when it is good enough then implement it. >> > But we need to let the room for the future growth. One of far-looking > plans is > "eye-

Re: committers should subscribe to commit-grub

2005-08-14 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > To those who have write access to the CVS: Please subscribe to the mailing > list commit-grub. Otherwise, your commits won't be notified. Actually they are automatic :)... But I assume you are talking about my commits. I do receive error message about them every time

committers should subscribe to commit-grub

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
To those who have write access to the CVS: Please subscribe to the mailing list commit-grub. Otherwise, your commits won't be notified. Okuji ___ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel

Re: vesafb terminal for testing.

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 18:47, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: > But we need to let the room for the future growth. One of far-looking > plans is > "eye-candy" menu interface and we don't know yet what we will put there. Good point. Just to give you some ideas, I attach an imaginary screenshot of a f

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Ok. At this moment I have one thing to do that will be approximately finished on Thursday and then I'll do it (on next Monday I suppose my assignment will be finished) Is it ok to create bison parser that will parse command by command and create a pseudocode at output that can be easily executed?

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 18:03, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: > It's only a question of syntax so it's ok but IMHO 2 points are important: > 1) It must be possible to set additional attributes to a menu entry I'd like to use options for these. Like this: entry --label="gnu" --key="g" "GNU 0.3" {

Re: vesafb terminal for testing.

2005-08-14 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: >I can try to draft out features that I think is needed and then we can > > >see what is still missing and when it is good enough then implement it. > > > But we need to let the room for the future growth. One of far-looking plans is "eye-candy" menu interface and we d

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >I have already proposed my idea of making each entry a function before. First, >please describe why you don't think this is not enough. > > > It's only a question of syntax so it's ok but IMHO 2 points are important: 1) It must be possible to set additional attrib

Re: vesafb terminal for testing.

2005-08-14 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> First one is that there should be common virtual terminal for all arch's >> and then separate graphics drivers that will do the actual drawing. In >> this patch this is all implemented in one module and it is not as pretty >> as it could be. > > Another way is to emula

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 15:29, Douglas Wade Needham wrote: > BTW...If 1.9 is supposed to be indicating that we are nearing a 2.0 > release, I don't think that now would be the time for such a major > change. After nearly 30 years of programming, one of the problems I > have seen in too many Open

Re: x86 serial support

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 15:03, Marco Gerards wrote: > There are also people using 286 computers, etc. My opinion is that we > should focus on the most important things first. That is vt100/ansi > support first. If someone really wants dumb terminal support he can > explain why and he can implem

Re: vesafb terminal for testing.

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 13:52, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > I have attached patch here that adds simple terminal that uses VESA BIOS > Extension 2.0+ for rendering terminal. It is not meant to be included as > is in GRUB 2, but I would hope that people would test it, so I could try > to improve it f

Re: GRUB 1.90 is released

2005-08-14 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >Only if you prove that the current implementation does not work, I will >consider it. > >I have already investigated how other systems deal with Gate A20. For example, >Linux does not do such a thing, but nobody has reported that it does not >work. > > > Ok. after a

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 11:18, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: > IMHO. Current system with title command is ugly because: I have already proposed my idea of making each entry a function before. First, please describe why you don't think this is not enough. Okuji ___

Re: GRUB 1.90 is released

2005-08-14 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 14 August 2005 09:47, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: > >Do you mean 80386? Of course, no. I don't have such an old CPU. > But some people use old PC like a home servers. So? > Perhaps if we read a huge block of memory it will do the trick? Only if you prove that the current implementation

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Douglas Wade Needham wrote: >The problem with your idea is that it at least appears to be too >Linux-centric, and forgets entirely about other operating systems, >invalidating the "unified" part of the GRUB name. And I get fed up >when on my machine which as FC3 has one of the OSes (along with Ne

Re: [DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Douglas Wade Needham
The problem with your idea is that it at least appears to be too Linux-centric, and forgets entirely about other operating systems, invalidating the "unified" part of the GRUB name. And I get fed up when on my machine which as FC3 has one of the OSes (along with NetBSD and several others), up2date

Re: x86 serial support

2005-08-14 Thread Marco Gerards
Omniflux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > Why anyone would now be using such a terminal I do not know, but if we > do not mention the proper way to use such a terminal, or not to use > such a terminal at all, I'm sure someone will try it. There are also people using 286 computers, etc. My opin

vesafb terminal for testing.

2005-08-14 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
Hi, I have attached patch here that adds simple terminal that uses VESA BIOS Extension 2.0+ for rendering terminal. It is not meant to be included as is in GRUB 2, but I would hope that people would test it, so I could try to improve it for greater compatibility (even though I have tried to follow

[DISCUSSION] Scripts and menus

2005-08-14 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
IMHO. Current system with title command is ugly because: -grub.cfg requires the separate parser. IMHO it should be parsed the same way as user input. -Even when scripting support will be ready it's impossible to create multiple menus of the same kind by just a loop (like for x in /boot/

Re: GRUB 1.90 is released

2005-08-14 Thread Vladimir Serbinenko
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > >Do you mean 80386? Of course, no. I don't have such an old CPU. > > > But some people use old PC like a home servers. But 80386 I suppose is not very used because it can't have more than a few hundred Mb hard disk, which is important criteria for home server, more im