From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LVvEx-00049r-GM for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:01:31 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVvEv-00046Y-MR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:01:29 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVvEu-000447-64 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:01:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52901 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVvEu-00043w-2t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:01:28 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:35256) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVvEt-0002w8-IS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:01:27 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LVv9h-0006C0-18 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:56:05 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LVvEP-000221-FR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:00:57 +0100 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:00:57 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090207220057.GK6343@thorin> References: <497F303B.30608@gmail.com> <497F750E.5080906@gmail.com> <497F78D2.8000706@nic.fi> <200901272030.33342.bsd@makefile.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200901272030.33342.bsd@makefile.in> 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-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Grub 2 command : uppermem (patch proposal) 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: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:01:29 -0000 On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:30:32PM -0500, Bandan Das wrote: > Hello List, > > I was going through the Grub 2 TODO here : http://grub.enbug.org/TodoList and > I see that one of the many commands that need to be implemented is "uppermem". The text in that list was a bit confusing. We don't have to implement _all_ missing commands, only those we find useful. > Having played around with uppermem quite a bit (thanks to the weird systems I > have to work with) on Grub Legacy, I was wondering if a patch for the same > would be considered for inclusion? Please note that I haven't started work on > it yet. I wanted to make sure that it's something desirable before putting up > a patch. Could you describe your problem in more detail, so we can discuss if it's something that makes uppermem worthy or we'd rather solve it in some other way? We don't want to leave your use case out in the cold, only to see if it can be supported in a better way. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."