From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port))
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:41:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090622204111.GA7871@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245699797.2561.4.camel@mj>
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:43:17PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 14:31 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Well it seems that OLPC (i386-ieee1275) needs alignment, but coreboot doesn't.
> > It must be some OFW-specific oddity.
> >
> > This patch makes the alignment ieee1275-specific on i386.
>
> We can define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 1 for such architectures and keep using
> ALIGN_UP (or remove ALIGN_UP - it doesn't matter). The value of 0 for
> GRUB_MOD_ALIGN is meaningless, but the value of 1 has a meaning - align
> to a byte boundary.
Good idea, I just did that. I didn't remove ALIGN_UP, since it's harmless.
--
Robert Millan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-22 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-21 18:17 [PATCH] i386-qemu port Robert Millan
2009-06-21 18:50 ` does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port) Robert Millan
2009-06-21 19:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-21 19:33 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 12:31 ` [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)) Robert Millan
2009-06-22 19:43 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 20:41 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-06-22 20:51 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 21:22 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 21:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 22:31 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 19:51 ` does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port) Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 22:50 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-06-23 0:10 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-21 18:54 ` [PATCH] move grub_stop() " Robert Millan
2009-06-21 19:05 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-21 19:25 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 2:14 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 10:10 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 16:16 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 18:05 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-21 19:00 ` [PATCH] i386-qemu port Pavel Roskin
2009-06-21 19:30 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 12:45 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-21 20:34 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-21 20:40 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-06-21 19:19 ` [PATCH] rename kernel.elf to kernel.img (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port) Robert Millan
2009-06-22 2:20 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 10:27 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-21 19:52 ` [PATCH] swap real_to_prot() and prot_to_real() " Robert Millan
2009-06-22 1:56 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 10:45 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-21 20:22 ` [PATCH] i386-qemu port Robert Millan
2009-06-22 1:50 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 10:57 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-21 22:53 ` [PATCH] access gdtdesc on segment 0 unconditionally (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port) Robert Millan
2009-06-22 1:22 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 9:52 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 19:39 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 20:52 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 21:32 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 21:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 22:43 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-23 0:53 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-23 11:02 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 21:36 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 22:52 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-22 10:26 ` about Apple compiler (Re: [PATCH] access gdtdesc on segment 0 unconditionally (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)) Robert Millan
2009-06-22 16:10 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 15:02 ` [PATCH] s/GRUB_MEMORY_MACHINE_LINK_ADDR/GRUB_KERNEL_MACHINE_LINK_ADDR/g (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port) Robert Millan
2009-06-22 19:00 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-22 23:07 ` clean patch for i386-qemu port " Robert Millan
2009-06-23 1:29 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-23 11:38 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-23 12:13 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-24 1:00 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-24 23:10 ` [PATCH] fix for loading modules from read-only memory area (Re: clean patch for i386-qemu port (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)) Robert Millan
2009-06-25 19:53 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-25 20:31 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-25 20:51 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-26 14:41 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-26 16:44 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-26 17:03 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-26 17:16 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-26 17:43 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-26 19:52 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-26 22:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-26 23:57 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-27 3:08 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-06-27 11:18 ` Robert Millan
2009-06-29 3:48 ` Pavel Roskin
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