From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1I9THH-0007bS-Fc for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:06:19 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I9THF-0007bN-Vx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:06:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I9THF-0007bB-4v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:06:17 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I9THF-0007b8-2J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:06:17 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I9THE-0004Lz-LC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:06:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I9THC-0000rL-9e for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:06:15 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I9TJO-0005KA-2T for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:08:30 +0200 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:08:30 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070713220829.GA20231@aragorn> References: <1183565937.7721.41.camel@diesel> <20070710100444.GA5222@sahara.iti.upv.es> <20070710140823.GA8909@aragorn> <1184099550.9495.76.camel@basalt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1184099550.9495.76.camel@basalt> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: memory management issue (Re: another regression on Efika) 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: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:06:18 -0000 On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:32:30PM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > > In short, whatever is causing these crashes is not only an Efika issue. > > > I suspect Apple, or Apple powerbooks at least, are also affected. I got > > > Sjoerd to try this on his powerbook, and he confirms this fixes for him. > > > Paul also tried, with the same results. Not all the powerbooks are the > > > very same model, there are different model revisions involved. > > > > The error Jordi was seeing before reverting your commits was very similar to > > what I get on my Efika (something like "claim failed"). > > > > Hollis, do you still think this is a firmware bug? > > Could somebody please debug it and report back if it is really a GRUB > issue? It could be as simple as adjusting the link address, or it could > mean instrumenting grub_available_iterate() and checking that output > with the contents of /memory/available. It turns out that grub_claim_heap() was asked to claim a region that starts after the heap limit. The start address (0x19111e4) is correctly obtained from /memory/available. Should heap limit be increased? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.