From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1TxuDO-0002Xc-PU for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:53:42 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxuDM-0002XU-EE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:53:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxuDK-0002Tb-WF for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:53:40 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f54.google.com ([74.125.82.54]:63545) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxuDK-0002S5-PE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:53:38 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id fg15so4880597wgb.21 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:53:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=514X8oHZENpR+RAyTDcnQ+YsVg5X4F65a89NyKHm5eM=; b=IkeYzSoXawezit5fvdHCEBSXfQtEH4VFQUWo++jVnRbs6NlcaNRYSFS258oM/1Mo7e Iz832SsC5cNpvc7kc3SOtIcr0przTA3jLJDHU3aXignwaBaf4nX6eM5eiW8yb6oYWCx1 KKfRUq/UHPfqrJH10RqIi4xPBq81BCu7yF/NqCijb+6jQ8Px0hjUXEQ601apsbb+wb/Z jUrQ6z2lw4JySV2Ozf046Q5Wp7Lk2rK41QS/CgBfOhkrPMREIrUUJwIdjBqatLgkQttf rkkB7LEqik3TC1odH2FKYzxiDAvqEfaS9PS/0CRlbgkX4S/nplTdmt82AkkQVIp4u3iW 4vYQ== X-Received: by 10.194.23.37 with SMTP id j5mr338358wjf.28.1358924017136; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:53:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet ([217.193.148.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id dm3sm25306086wib.9.2013.01.22.22.53.35 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:53:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50FF88E8.2000501@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:53:28 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121122 Icedove/10.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support Openfirmware disks with non-512B sectors References: <20130122124416.Horde.fXeeqJir309Q-s-wfJhzDAA@imap.linux.ibm.com> <20130122233548.3b7efcc9@opensuse.site> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9C82FC36A963CB2C9E96658C" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 74.125.82.54 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: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:53:41 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9C82FC36A963CB2C9E96658C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 22.01.2013 20:39, Seth Goldberg wrote: >=20 >=20 > Quoting Andrey Borzenkov, who wrote the following on Tue, 22 Jan 2013: >=20 >> =D0=92 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:04:19 -0800 (PST) >> Seth Goldberg =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82= : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Why is this limited to OpenFirmware only? Can you generate a >>> patch that >>> supports 4KN disks on ALL platforms? >>> >> >> It already supports 4K sector internally and queries disk sector size >> for SCSI, ATA and EFI (at least). BIOS is always emulating 512 sector.= >=20 > That is not true. True 4k native drives (on i386-pc) will not boot > with GRUB 2 due to issues in grub-setup (I have a proposal I'll send in= > a bit to fix that). >=20 The parts to query sector size on BIOS are also in. But none of my BIOSes were able to even show a 4K-sector drive in its boot menu. > --S >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig9C82FC36A963CB2C9E96658C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAlD/iO8ACgkQNak7dOguQgmByQEAr3GfNL/uRfnHjM65Ni21ofCj 4IoKBwmJqOxj5u9+MM4A/RLpCo34LVHXbO9xSgBT6CAJw7GLrZoXtCHXI0kM6fXt =ycW1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9C82FC36A963CB2C9E96658C--