From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1Ru1kQ-00042B-U4 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:03:14 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53767) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru1kO-00041x-QX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:03:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru1kN-0001OR-LP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:03:12 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:49208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru1kN-0001OG-Ek for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:03:11 -0500 Received: by wgbdt13 with SMTP id dt13so4140720wgb.30 for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:03:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RzPbTzjHlNZiKPt5uJBF92aZVK5+K6UbWf07Z4OoRA4=; b=sstYnoGhlWPLzSix+TQGAwnGAwI1o5tMis2prHSonMwsu1pA+4xapIqp6wezKN7DvW gXKzCkY5ndeKDInvScJEf+N1HTdacx0TmHow73vp6YxEzqOdpulNii0q4qDwDw91lC7j S7IQguqLgfCdzQmtTXE7YYKi9zwXyBJF7buJg= Received: by 10.180.82.39 with SMTP id f7mr8789846wiy.19.1328446989749; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedora.x201.phnet (65-63.203-62.cust.bluewin.ch. [62.203.63.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q2sm18688156wiy.7.2012.02.05.05.03.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:03:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F2E7E09.1090703@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:03:05 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120131 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 , tgingold@free.fr Subject: Removal of "payload" command on ia64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:03:13 -0000 Hello, all. When I was looking at the ambiguous strings and mistranslations I came accross "payload" ia64 command in Linux loader. Its description was so vague that it could do anything and still match the description. So I've decided to investigate to find out what it's about. But boot parameter structure in Linux files stops at initrd fields. Moreover the only reference on Google to ia64_boot_payload is our code. Could someone supply more details? If not I'll assume that it was just some debug feature during developpement and isn't used by anyone and remove it. -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko