[PATCH] Software RAID (fakeraid) support for Linux device mapper

2010-07-14 Thread Raphael Bossek
Hi folks, I'm using Debian GNU/Linux "squeeze/sid" with Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem were my two harddisks are configured in Software RAID (aka faikraid). Because faikraid did not work for me especialy since udev version 158 where /dev/mapper/pdc_* are symlinked to /dev/dm-* nodes I tried myself in c

Re: [PATCH] Fix for relocatable PowerPC kernels

2010-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:27:01PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 07/13/2010 12:12 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > This is supported upstream on a number of architectures, for example > > the PowerPC configuration option is: > > Then I'm ok with your patch but I'm on wack

Re: Grub IA64

2010-07-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/14/2010 02:39 PM, Chinces Diana wrote: First of all HTML e-mail are annoying and bad netiquette. Please adjust your mailer > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > We would be very interested in replacing elilo (the current Itanium > boot loader) with grub. > > > > Could you help us with answ

Re: Grub IA64

2010-07-14 Thread Bogdan
Hi, Diana. First of all, the Multiboot specification doesn't (yet) support Itanium and that is definetely something that needs work before we can say that GRUB has full support for this architecture. What do you mean by network chainloading, how do you expect to boot loader to behave exactly?

Grub IA64

2010-07-14 Thread Chinces Diana
Hi all, We would be very interested in replacing elilo (the current Itanium boot loader) with grub. Could you help us with answering a few questions about this boot loader? 1. Can you tell us if this type of architecture is supported or will be supported? 2. Is th

Re: [Patch] configure --help message for grub-emu

2010-07-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/14/2010 05:23 AM, Jason Butler wrote: > Here is a patch to have configure --help print the build instructions for > grub-emu > > I'm fine with the principle. However in your patch the syntax of help message seems unclear for me. Is it 2 sentences? If it's the same sentence as the punctuat

Re: [PATCH] Fix for relocatable PowerPC kernels

2010-07-14 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/13/2010 12:12 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote: > Hi, > > >> Is building as ET_DYN supported upstream? We previously had reports of >> building system of some distros to be plainly borked and usualy the >> distro fixed their building system pretty fast. If upstream supports >> ET_DYN, then this p

Re: [Patch] Discard incorrect nested partitions (fixes #29956)

2010-07-14 Thread Grégoire Sutre
On 07/13/2010 11:53 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: I mean that the files we need are below the limit but some parts of partition are above the limit. It will work the current boot but will break in the future. I see. Go ahead for trunk. Thanks, I committed the patch. Gr