From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JJojN-0008BW-LT for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:34:21 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJojL-0008B0-Af for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:34:19 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJojH-00089F-Rl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:34:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJojH-000897-Jc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:34:15 -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 1JJojH-0000fY-9U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:34:15 -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 1JJoj9-0001Hj-Gj; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:34:09 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJohP-000639-Ce; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:32:19 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:32:19 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: tgingold@free.fr Message-ID: <20080129113219.GA22894@thorin> References: <20080128160905.GA2739@saphi> <20080128165504.GB9715@thorin> <20080129051252.GA2504@saphi> <20080129095922.GA31756@thorin> <1201602926.479f016e27f08@imp.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1201602926.479f016e27f08@imp.free.fr> 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. Cc: The development of GRUB 2 Subject: Re: IA64 port 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: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:34:19 -0000 On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:35:26AM +0100, tgingold@free.fr wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan : > > > > Why is this needed? I'm not sure if it's good to exploit this > > "unreliability" > > > > feature that fat provides us ;-) > > > > > > On EFI, the prefix is extracted from an EFI path, whose case may not match > > > the FAT entries. > > > > Can you be more specific about this? What do the specs say? We wrote > > /boot/grub ourselves via grub-install; is an EFI-compliant firmware > > allowed to actively mess up case in paths we provided? > > On EFI, we don't really know where grub is stored. There is a filesystem > layout convention we'd better to follow. As a consequence, we extract the > path from an EFI structure (I didn't write this code - it's in the EFI common > code). What would you think of case-insensitive search in grub_efi_set_prefix() ? -- 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 /.)