From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xYa-0007DV-ND for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:44 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xYY-0007AF-Hd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xYT-00072G-CX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52672 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xYT-00071x-7Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:37 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com ([209.85.219.211]:55703) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3xYS-0004m7-Mz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:36 -0400 Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so1324017ewy.31 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:54:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=F0gmaLlxq6CpbXP9uixZ/X24f7qnA/63q8g0188ogao=; b=mO0yRbguDpju5xIYl9a/85sHfcqI5Z2w+2H5Ng8TQp1teDAIEeFw+y05ODNZHADHFv z9k/7o4oWt07UScg/UP//ia4cgprBPpstwi2TSAIT+cjzx5SYiYSLa0bxwrR+tJRgpPI 4V8ssl04EjGtKSWip5T/uyiEPFoaOeZgiMpow= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rYI4P3n0w5N2C6tJLqclWwwW2TrbWOCJqGYcFeDo9Xtb0236bK9D03eIewOdbMqd8L qloF+gRiIV/Z/W8z7foQBPaKk7u6RBRzYU2W9XgDOYxHLEPn0b4wZggI28YN38Jx4ZMc dpmEsSLphNcv1U/IsuPRJl8ITboIcccV55e/g= Received: by 10.211.132.3 with SMTP id j3mr1275714ebn.81.1256932475384; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (65.Red-88-21-98.staticIP.rima-tde.net [88.21.98.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm2292361eya.44.2009.10.30.12.54.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AEB4474.7010801@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:54:28 +0100 From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20091029202000.61a00e31@shiva.selfip.org> <4AE9B79D.7050408@gmail.com> <20091029220121.792a3ce2@shiva.selfip.org> In-Reply-To: <20091029220121.792a3ce2@shiva.selfip.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: success booting hdt.c32 module with memdisk 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: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:54:42 -0000 J. Bakshi wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:41:17 +0100 > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > >> Hello >> J. Bakshi wrote: >> >>> Hello list, >>> >>> Finally I got success booting hdt.c32 module ( hdt = hardware >>> detection tool) with the latest floppy image released by hdt team. >>> hdt.c32 is a syslinux module. As per their suggestion the following >>> config works for me from usb stick. >>> >>> menuentry HDT { >>> linux16 /memdisk >>> initrd16 / >>> } >>> >>> Though it would be nice to see grub's power to directly load >>> syslinux module like this one :-) >>> >>> >>> >> I would be happy to have syslinux com32 glue level. Are you willing to >> code one? >> > > I would Love to do so but as a Linux sysadmin my programming knowledge is restricted in shell-script :-( > If you permit me and show me the direction then I can ask the required info at hdt group. > > Basically you just need to get coding 1) Verify that the module is under compatible license 2) Put it into grub2 directory and add to rmk file 3) Fix all compile errors Binary compatibility is more difficult to get binary compatibility but is probably useless too as anyway you can't have non GPLv3+-compatible modules so source compatibility is enough. Additionally having them as source in grub-extras potentially makes it useful on non-pc as well -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git