Re: some multiboot2 comments

2006-10-30 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:15 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:32, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > Are you saying that given tag->key == foo, tag->length == sizeof(struct > > tag_foo)? I think it makes far more sense to allow 'length' to be > > independent of 'key', and t

Re: [PATCH] generic ELF loading (updated)

2006-10-30 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 21:19 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:35, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:16 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > On Friday 27 October 2006 21:19, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > > Comments please. Also see next mail to se

Re: some multiboot2 comments

2006-10-30 Thread Tristan Gingold
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:20:55PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:38, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > grub should be aware of the main module types. For these TYPE is a keyword > > such as ramdisk, kernel, xen-acm... > > For not yet known types, TYPE can be an UUID. > >

Re: some multiboot2 comments

2006-10-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:38, Tristan Gingold wrote: > grub should be aware of the main module types. For these TYPE is a keyword > such as ramdisk, kernel, xen-acm... > For not yet known types, TYPE can be an UUID. > UUID doesn't require a central administration. I think this is a real > adva

Re: [PATCH] generic ELF loading (updated)

2006-10-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:35, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:16 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Friday 27 October 2006 21:19, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > Comments please. Also see next mail to see how the PPC Linux loader > > > uses it. > > > > So this still loads

Re: some multiboot2 comments

2006-10-30 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Saturday 28 October 2006 20:32, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Are you saying that given tag->key == foo, tag->length == sizeof(struct > tag_foo)? I think it makes far more sense to allow 'length' to be > independent of 'key', and that means we don't need this 'reserved' > stuff. 'length' is sometim

Re: Bug#390473: grub2: menuentry stanza doesn't accept $ { } in variable substitutions

2006-10-30 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! Again, forwarding to grub-devel, but setting M-F-T and R-T to the bug, Robert and myself. On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:49:49 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:21:05PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:36:57PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> [somethi