Hello. Discussing with Robert Millan and Bean on IRC we noticed that
disk cache index is statically allocated. Here is a proposal to change
it to dynamic allocation proportional to the size of available memory.
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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Index: kern/disk.c
Le Saturday 07 March 2009 11:37:36 Robert Millan, vous avez écrit :
> I'm not sure how many of us are experienced with sparc (Vincent? Who
> else?).
I wouldn't call me experienced, except if it only means that I did
experimentation with that arch :) .
> I'm very interested to see proper sparc s
Bean wrote:
Hi,
Hello. I was looking into nested partitions issue and propose to unify grub_partition
and grub_disk. In this case when a code calls grub_disk_read with a >grub_disk_t
which represents a partition it will correct the offset and call grub_disk_read with
underlying partition or
Hi,
>Hello. I was looking into nested partitions issue and propose to unify
>grub_partition and grub_disk. In this case when a code calls grub_disk_read
>with a >grub_disk_t which represents a partition it will correct the offset
>and call grub_disk_read with underlying partition or disk. In th
I forgot to speak about another question: partition naming. I see 2
possibilities
1) purely numeric unified naming scheme. It means that
(hd0,1,a) becomes (hd0,1,1)
On one hand mixed number-letter scheme is similar to what freebsd uses
but on the other hand numerical scheme is versatile and allo
Hello. Here is a trivial patch for testing which interrupts are and
which aren't handled by BIOS. Can be used as a simple but not reliable
test for boot viruses
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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Index: conf/i386-pc.rmk
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On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 03:58:46PM +0100, phcoder wrote:
> Hello. I was looking into nested partitions issue and propose to unify
> grub_partition and grub_disk. In this case when a code calls
> grub_disk_read with a grub_disk_t which represents a partition it will
> correct the offset and ca
Hello. I was looking into nested partitions issue and propose to unify
grub_partition and grub_disk. In this case when a code calls
grub_disk_read with a grub_disk_t which represents a partition it will
correct the offset and call grub_disk_read with underlying partition or
disk. In this way no
From: Robert Millan
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:38:38 +0100
> On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:56:43AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Quoting David Miller :
> >
> >>> I was considering making grub_size_t long and grub_ssize_t unsigned
> >>> long. I remember that it required many changes in string formats
From: Robert Millan
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:37:36 +0100
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:38:47PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > I am able to boot into the GRUB kernel prompt on my test system,
> > I have a lot of new code written, I'm _EXTREMELY_ motivated
> > and want to get this all working fully
Small word about xnu. It needs for norma booting just a quite big amount
of contiguos memory anywhere below 4GiB. This is typically 64 MiB
depending on the amount of loaded modules but can be much larger (e.g.
if using ramdisk)
In the case of resuming from hibernation it needs small amount at
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Kevin Lacquement writes:
> Again looking at the script parser, I notices that it uses a
> Yacc-generated parser, but a hand-written tokenizer. Is there a reason
> that it doesn't use Lex? Is it due to external dependencies, and if so,
> is there a way to recreate these deps (library or whatever)
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:02:28PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > This patch makes the generic Linux loader usable on i386-pc again. It
> > doesn't seem like it's badly needed to spend a bit of time and a bit of
> > code in adding low memory to the heap, and Vesa's work
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:34:47PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > I think we're already using longs this way in quite a few places. It's not
> > such a big deal IMHO.
>
> And ironically enough, using "unsigned long" would allow us to
> share this header with any future 32-bit sparc GRUB supp
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:56:43AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting David Miller :
>
>>> I was considering making grub_size_t long and grub_ssize_t unsigned
>>> long. I remember that it required many changes in string formats, so I
>>> didn't feel it would be justified. But we could try it ag
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:38:47PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Robert Millan
> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:01:10 +0100
>
> > In the future, please send followup patches in the same thread. It helps
> > keeping track of things, which is quite hard for us to keep up with
> > already..
>
> Su
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