Re: grub-fstest: debug tool for filesystem driver

2008-01-04 Thread Bean
On Jan 4, 2008 8:08 PM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 7:53 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:11:32AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > > blst FILE > > > display the blocklist of FILE in the image file > > > > Is this `blst' analogous to the `blockli

Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

2008-01-04 Thread Bean
On Jan 5, 2008 9:29 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:53, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > Bean wrote: > > > On Jan 3, 2008 7:19 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Please wait a minute. Personally, I don't want grub_file_open to > >

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 21:37 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > If you want to confirm that it's grub-mkimage's fault, you can try booting > kernel.elf directly. In theory it should give you a rescue prompt. That's what it does. And that's what we have been discussing closer to the bottom :-) > > In

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 02:27 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:28, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > >> Linux style description. The first line is the synopsis. If it > > >> doesn't fit 72 characters, the patch is a candidate for splitting. > > >> Then an empty line. Then a

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 04 January 2008 21:37, Robert Millan wrote: > > A quick look into util/elf/grub-mkimage.c finds "Don't bother preserving > > the section headers". I don't even know if the problem is specifically > > with the section headers or with something else. Perhaps > > util/elf/grub-mkimage.c sh

Re: [PATCH] skip `.' and `..' directories in TAB completion

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 04 January 2008 13:14, Robert Millan wrote: > This patch skips . and .. directories in tab completion. They're basicaly > useless to the user, and this mimics bash completion behaviour. Okay for me. Thanks, Okuji ___ Grub-devel mailing list

Re: opening new context (was: [PATCH] allow user-configurable menucolor)

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 04 January 2008 09:02, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:04:59PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > About new context: > > > > Shouldn't new context have clone of it's parent contexts settings? > > I wouldn't want to change that without having some input from whoever > de

Re: grub-pc: installation failure under linux + udev

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Friday 04 January 2008 00:54, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:14:23PM +0100, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > this is a copy of debian bug 450709 > > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450709) at > > debian maintainer's (Robert Millan ) request: > > Tha

Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:53, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Bean wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2008 7:19 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please wait a minute. Personally, I don't want grub_file_open to > >> decompress a content automatically. The name should stand for what it > >> d

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:28, Pavel Roskin wrote: > >> Linux style description. The first line is the synopsis. If it > >> doesn't fit 72 characters, the patch is a candidate for splitting. > >> Then an empty line. Then a more detailed description of the patch, > >> including the motivation

Re: multiboot.texi

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 03 January 2008 14:59, Robert Millan wrote: > I'd like to copy grub/docs/multiboot.texi into grub2 CVS, and start > providing it as part of the docs. > > The copyright holders are: > > Copyright @copyright{} 1995,96 Bryan Ford > > Copyright @copyright{} 1995,96 Erich Stefan Boleyn

Re: variable hooks & global variables

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:05, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 04:03:11PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > When you set a variable hook (grub_register_variable_hook), this hook > > isn't preserved after someone (e.g. configfile command) opens a new > > context (grub_env_context_op

Re: [PATCH] memtest86+ fix

2008-01-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 02:09 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > "big_loaded" sounds horrible to me. How about grub_linux_big_image_loaded? "big image" is normally abbreviated as bzimage, as opposed to zimage, so I would suggest something of this kind: grub_is_bzimage grub_linux_is_bzimage grub_bz

Re: spam in commit-grub

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 03 January 2008 02:08, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:55:37AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > I wouldn't like to run the risk of missing legitimate mail, specially in > > this case that blocking spam is just a matter of restricting who can post > > to commit-grub (lik

Re: [PATCH] memtest86+ fix

2008-01-04 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 03 January 2008 02:06, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:46:15AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:05, Robert Millan wrote: > > > This fixes boot for memtest86+ (and actually, Linux zImages since they > > > were all affected). > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] split realmode and loader routines out of startup.S

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 06:15:17PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:09:07 +0200, > Robert Millan wrote: > > This patch splits realmode and loader routines out of startup.S. The idea > > is that the LinuxBIOS port can be adapted to share more code with the rest > > of GRUB inst

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:26:59PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > AFAICT, it can only happen in three ways: > > > > 1- The firmware doesn't like GRUB image, and aborts with bogus errors > > before > > transferring control to GRUB. You can easily tell this appart by checking > > for ea

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-04 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 13:32 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:23:01AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > >Why? Does the firmware impose this restriction, or is it GRUB itself that > > >gets confused? > > > > I wish I knew it. 0x7000 is not OK, 0x8000 is OK. Less granularity

Re: Switching to git?

2008-01-04 Thread Otavio Salvador
Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:28:28 +0100, > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: >> >> On Tuesday 18 December 2007 13:05, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> > Personally I don't like bazaar due performance problem. It's really >> > slow for big projects (it wouldn't be a big pr

Re: [PATCH] split realmode and loader routines out of startup.S

2008-01-04 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:09:07 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > This patch splits realmode and loader routines out of startup.S. The idea > is that the LinuxBIOS port can be adapted to share more code with the rest > of GRUB instead of duplicating it. > > This is quite critical stuff, so even if the c

Re: Switching to git?

2008-01-04 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:28:28 +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 13:05, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Personally I don't like bazaar due performance problem. It's really > > slow for big projects (it wouldn't be a big problem since GRUB is a > > small one) and it changes

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:32:24PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > (we already work this out mostly by heuristics e.g. see my commit in > 2007-10-07). Erm sorry, this part is not accurate. What I mean is that we use heuristics when firmware is buggy and its /memory/available OFW path doesn't re

Re: Testing on PowerMac G4

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 11:23:01AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > >Why? Does the firmware impose this restriction, or is it GRUB itself that > >gets confused? > > I wish I knew it. 0x7000 is not OK, 0x8000 is OK. Less granularity > makes no sense since the value is aligned at the 0x1000 boundar

[PATCH] skip `.' and `..' directories in TAB completion

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
This patch skips . and .. directories in tab completion. They're basicaly useless to the user, and this mimics bash completion behaviour. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) * normal/completion.c (it

Re: grub-fstest: debug tool for filesystem driver

2008-01-04 Thread Bean
On Jan 4, 2008 7:53 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:11:32AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > blst FILE > > display the blocklist of FILE in the image file > > Is this `blst' analogous to the `blocklist' command we already have? In > that case, I'd suggest giving it

Re: grub-fstest: debug tool for filesystem driver

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:11:32AM +0800, Bean wrote: > blst FILE > display the blocklist of FILE in the image file Is this `blst' analogous to the `blocklist' command we already have? In that case, I'd suggest giving it the same name. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call!

Re: [PATCH] Fix eisa_mmap evaluation, add memory existence check

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
Committed. On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:40:00PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > This version of the patch contains only the fix for the E801 EISA memory > map. The memory existence check was helpful for testing but is not > really necessary. > > But this bug should be fixed, otherwise GRUB2 wou

opening new context (was: [PATCH] allow user-configurable menucolor)

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:04:59PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > > About new context: > > Shouldn't new context have clone of it's parent contexts settings? I wouldn't want to change that without having some input from whoever designed (or understands) grub_env_export(). There's probably a