From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JHm27-0006HC-Rn for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:17:15 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHm26-0006El-At for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:17:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHm24-0006BE-Mu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:17:14 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHm24-0006B0-Hq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:17:12 -0500 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 1JHm24-00062u-8G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:17:12 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JHm1v-0005qU-OJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:17:04 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JHm0U-0006fL-52 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:15:34 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:15:34 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080123201534.GA25534@thorin> References: <20071230134824.GB21397@thorin> <20080120232435.GB16365@thorin> <20080122135757.GA11484@thorin> <873asoudkm.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080123191449.GB15742@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] memdisk plus lnxboot extension 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: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:17:14 -0000 On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:24:37AM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 3:14 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:01:33AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > > On Jan 24, 2008 12:18 AM, Bean wrote: > > > > On Jan 23, 2008 4:54 PM, Marco Gerards wrote: > > > > > When is this feature useful? Can you give an example? More features > > > > > can mean more bugs, more maintainance work, etc. If the feature is > > > > > not worthwhile for more than one person, I am not sure if it should be > > > > > included. Perhaps a better explaination of the problem to solve, > > > > > instead of what the patch does might help here. > > > > > > > > the most important usage of external initrd is to overcome the size > > > > limit of core.img. > > > > > > this is the new patch, now no need to modify grub-mkimage, use cat > > > just as before. > > > > Well.. even though I still don't see the motivation, I'm less concerned about > > this if it's just added to lnxboot.img. > > > > > +VARIABLE(grub_memdisk_image_addr) > > > + .long 0 > > > > I recall you said use of this variable could be avoided ? > > This variable can't be avoided. it's used by grub_arch_memdisk_addr to > return the address of initrd. however, i can copy initrd to the > location to make it look like core.img load it, but that means an > extra memory copy. The region where memdisk is normally put has no size limit, only the core image itself does. Why not load it at the same address? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)