From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JI5ob-0005Vg-VL for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:24:38 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI5oa-0005Tc-4j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:24:36 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JI5oY-0005RH-Ht for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:24:35 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JI5oY-0005R4-6Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:24:34 -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 1JI5oY-0005Hq-B8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:24:34 -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 1JI5oG-000827-W8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:24:20 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JI5la-0005AL-5n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:21:30 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:21:30 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080124172130.GA19812@thorin> References: <20080123201534.GA25534@thorin> <20080123211506.GA27338@thorin> <20080124113244.GA2249@thorin> <20080124142551.GA8248@thorin> <20080124165555.GA13105@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: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:24:36 -0000 On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:04:34AM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 12:55 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:25:51PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > > > You want to add a feature that only works when you have the ability to load > > > images of an arbitrary size. However, if we had this ability we wouldn't have > > > to compress core.img, or make it small in the first place. We would then > > > just create core.img of an arbitrary size, and include a memdisk of an > > > arbitrary size in it. But then we wouldn't need a feature to work around the > > > size restriction in memdisk! > > > > Just discussed it with Marco on IRC, and he said we could load core.img in high > > memory, like in 0x100000 right away. This solves the size limit in memdisk > > which I think is the source of the problem. > > > > Of course, this collides with the OS load area, so we'd also need to add > > relocation in loader, as described in the "grub_dl_unload_all()" thread. I > > do even have unfinished code for this, although it may take a while to get it > > done properly (maybe we need to add features to memory manager or so). Does > > this work for you? > > i think this is great, we don't have to worry about memdisk size, and > no need for the initrd hack anymore. Ok. I'll send my patch to the list later (not as a proposal for commit, but to start a discussion on what is the right way to do it). -- 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 /.)