Re: grubenv file format

2010-11-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:44:31AM +0530, Gnanasekar Loganathan wrote: >What is the grubenv format? Currently, it is a 1024-byte file beginning with "# GRUB Environment Block\n". Entries are written as "NAME=VALUE\n". The file is fixed-size, and free space up to the end of the file is filled

Re: GRUB2 EFI and multiboot.mod for use with Xen

2010-11-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 11/23/2010 04:54 PM, Søren Grønning Iversen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Has anybody had any success multibooting a bootia32.efi setup with Xen > on a Mac Pro / Xserve? > > I have a MacPro1,1 (dual processor dual core Xeon 2.0 GHz) booting > nicely with bootia32.efi, but would really like to be ab

Re: powerpc/emu build failure

2010-11-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 04:21:14PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > It seems to me that we should probably include the emu implementation of > grub_arch_sync_caches in the kernel when building for the emu platform. > Does this patch look sane? > > 2010-11-23 Colin Watson > > * grub-core/Make

Re: powerpc/emu build failure

2010-11-24 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 11/24/2010 01:08 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 04:21:14PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > >> It seems to me that we should probably include the emu implementation of >> grub_arch_sync_caches in the kernel when building for the emu platform. >> Does this patch look sane? >> >>

Re: powerpc/emu build failure

2010-11-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 02:38:22PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 11/24/2010 01:08 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 04:21:14PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > >> It seems to me that we should probably include the emu implementation of > >> grub_arch_sync_c

[PATCH] Use submenus for 10_linux

2010-11-24 Thread Colin Watson
What do people think of this? It's a remarkably small change now that Vladimir's implemented submenus, and I've had a number of requests for it. I wonder if it would be worth having some visual indication that a menu entry is a submenu; but that probably ought to be done centrally. I don't know

suppressed compilation warnings when using gnulib

2010-11-24 Thread Szymon Janc
Hi all, I've noticed that compilation warnings for regexp.c and wildcard.c are suppressed by CFLAGS_GNULIB. Removing it expose ftbs caused by both missing defines for gnulib and compilation warnings (see attached patch). I'm not sure how we should handle missing defines but I think that we shou

Re: [PATCH] Use submenus for 10_linux

2010-11-24 Thread Jordan Uggla
On 11/24/2010 09:21 AM, Colin Watson wrote: What do people think of this? It's a remarkably small change now that Vladimir's implemented submenus, and I've had a number of requests for it. * util/grub.d/10_linux.in: Put second and subsequent menu entries in a submenu. +

Re: grubenv file format

2010-11-24 Thread Gnanasekar Loganathan
Thanks again Colin! -Gnana On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:44:31AM +0530, Gnanasekar Loganathan wrote: > >What is the grubenv format? > > Currently, it is a 1024-byte file beginning with "# GRUB Environment > Block\n". Entries are written