Re: Native CD test results

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 23:55 +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:48 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 04:25 +0800, Bean wrote:
> >>
> >>> This patch add support for 16-bit png.
> >> Thanks was quick!  It's working for me.
> > 
> > By the way, we should recognize images by their internal data, not by
> > the filenames.  As it stands now, the jpeg reader only supports files
> > with ".jpeg" extension, not with ".jpg", which is more popular.  And the
> > error message is unclear if the extension is unknown.
> 
> .jpg should of course be supported.

Yes, I could not figure out why it wasn't working until I checked the
sources.

>  But why we _should_ support others 
> (incorrectly named files) ?

The name may be in upper case.  Or maybe it's a compressed file ending
with .gz that is being uncompressed on the fly.

>  I think file extension is good enough to 
> detect images... If someone makes incorrect extensions its their 
> problem... we just make sure our driver do not die at that...

I don't insist, but GRUB traditionally gives its users power to force
things in a specific way, for example, prevent automatic decompression
or force loading a kernel as a FreeBSD kernel.  Besides, users cannot
rename images while in GRUB.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin