From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1K1rIq-0007g5-81 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 19:13:00 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1rIo-0007fm-Ms for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1rIm-0007fD-Na for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36157 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1rIm-0007f9-Iz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:56 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:23675) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K1rIm-0006mE-BT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:56 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.81]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 29 May 2008 19:12:53 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.21] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by relay.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A420619058; Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20080528213614.GA18932@thorin> References: <20080528213614.GA18932@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 19:12:52 -0400 Message-Id: <1212102772.4265.53.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Jordi Mallach Subject: Re: [PATCH] arbitrary drive names in device.map X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 23:12:59 -0000 On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:36 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hi, > > This patch fixed the device.map handlers to accept any device name for grub > drives, rather than just BIOS-style "hd[0-9]" and "fd[0-9]". It makes > update-grub usable on OFW, Coreboot, etc. > > Any comments? That's a very welcome change! By the way, biosdisk.c becomes a misnomer. If I understand correctly, biosdisk.c is not going to be emulating anything BIOS specific with your patch. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin