Re: [PATCH] Use submenus for 10_linux

2010-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 01:36:15PM +, Žika wrote: > I like the idea. But how are we to set default kernel, other than > first, to boot automatically, now...? Old-school method doesn't > work... The following patch should fix handling of default='title' for entries within submenus. I haven't b

Re: Need --divide flag for assembly of startup.S on some platforms

2010-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 03:47:53PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > So, is it better to require binutils 2.17, or to accept the maintenance > burden of avoiding the / operator in i386 assembly? My instinct remains > the latter, I think - I have no idea what version of binutils is in > place on our var

Re: Need --divide flag for assembly of startup.S on some platforms

2010-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:42:10PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 12/02/2010 10:29 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:15:10PM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote: > >> Since the default for gas on these platforms is to use he division > >> operator as a comm

Re: Need LARGEFILE_SOURCE && _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

2010-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 01:20:13PM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote: > In testing grub-emu after a merge, I was getting weird behavior whereby > a zfs volume could not be properly read. It was failing because, after a > lot of painful debugging, I discovered that the offsets issued to the > underly