From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KIdGt-0004PL-Ih for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:19 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIdGr-0004NH-7P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIdGn-0004K8-Va for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39845 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIdGn-0004Jx-MA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:13 -0400 Received: from mailout10.t-online.de ([194.25.134.21]:41792) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIdGn-0001S6-9Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:13 -0400 Received: from fwd32.aul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1KIdGk-0005Xg-03; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:40:10 +0200 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (TW5zP6Zloh1bH7OemDP3Q528ORXgq9SuEVGDexMNkV+CapIzTo+lUmp8M4H7JbsQRY@[217.235.198.29]) by fwd32.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1KIdGd-0t4BEW0; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:40:03 +0200 Message-ID: <487C3833.50303@t-online.de> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:40:03 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <1216040584.9995.52.camel@dv> <487B84FC.7050700@t-online.de> <1216067223.28189.25.camel@dv> In-Reply-To: <1216067223.28189.25.camel@dv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: TW5zP6Zloh1bH7OemDP3Q528ORXgq9SuEVGDexMNkV+CapIzTo+lUmp8M4H7JbsQRY X-TOI-MSGID: a3fc3239-06f6-449f-bc43-8e72dde749ac X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Next release? 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, 15 Jul 2008 05:40:18 -0000 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:55 +0200, Christian Franke wrote: > > >> Thanks for considering Cygwin support for the next release. >> >> The first (and last) grub package released in the Cygwin distribution >> was based on grub codebase from 2008-03-26. My latest reasonably tested >> merge is ~2 month old. If desired, I can merge & test all remaining >> changes to current HEAD and post the patches for review soon. >> > > I'm sorry, I forgot that story. It may be a more radical change than I > expected. Anyway, let's see what remains to be done. > > Here is a older diffstat: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-04/msg00013.html The changes for util/biosdisk.c, util/getroot.c, and util/mkdevicemap.c are already checked in. >> BTW: >> - Supporting "Ltext0" would not help much for Cygwin, because a linker >> script is required due to the lack of "ld -N" support. >> > > We may want to use linker scripts on all platforms for uniformity. > > Yes, more flexible. And the tests for _start etc. are no longer necessary. >> - Cygwin liblzo2* packages were released 1 week before the grub package :-) >> > > That means the development package too? That's good. > > Yes, liblzo2-devel too. Christian