Re: Next release?

[Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>]

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.
>
>   

Meantime, I merged the Cygwin version to HEAD. First tests were successful.

LZMA works and is a real benefit. Core.img size was critical due to the 
large ntfs.mod. With LZMA, there is enough space for ntfscomp.mod and 
even more.

I posted the 3 remaining patches today, see:
[PATCH] grub-probe -t prefix, fix update-grub_lib for Cygwin
[PATCH] Kernel fixes for Cygwin
[PATCH] Build fixes for Cygwin

With these patches, Grub compiles & works out-of-the-box on Cygwin.

If there are no complaints, I will commit these in a week or so.

Christian