From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1YKVRP-0005NO-Rx for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:14:39 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43755) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKVRO-0005NG-2d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:14:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKVRI-0001IU-C2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:14:38 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::229]:52738) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKVRI-0001I8-6O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:14:32 -0500 Received: by mail-oi0-f41.google.com with SMTP id z81so19212107oif.0 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:14:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DAcVPfVZU6iYYSgwCABgbZVXsM/7L2aKpp5cOA0y5YQ=; b=Jwz2D4dJKzkga+5KxiQ+c+cf/vxkk4ueFuau9Jgtvx0X7RdW5UsdjilxadGAbnJri9 z8Os19VRE3f4Tr6hBzTyJSL/9tyXVlLYDM5DKF5HanujS7qy7+alhmdNVIVrR2bObeI3 X7jc0eQ+tc4AWt8UWXPyYwC7RzrR7eF8n/m8JUhylLpzGVqttozTu8ul/xBTl3ap5KaF p6QbVc4LqEDa52PbIjTkDLAN08+sSMh7zFBEFaw0U3Cbr5dgvlzFDi59KW1l56P62FCT +9TW82Nb13v8qeW6Gtmv/TITmf2F+5Jew70fwOufWRr/wZ1dsBBdi9WZzy3bpZwIdTgU v0GA== X-Received: by 10.60.92.66 with SMTP id ck2mr9186601oeb.30.1423415670846; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:14:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.75] (cpe-70-123-211-202.satx.res.rr.com. [70.123.211.202]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id y9sm4163447obg.26.2015.02.08.09.14.29 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:14:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54D79974.3080507@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:14:28 -0600 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: initrd loading, max size, addr_min, and page_align References: <66CA070CE60D374FB9F56957F4E00BBA14E22944@gbplmail01.genband.com> <20150208200230.53f274fe@opensuse.site> In-Reply-To: <20150208200230.53f274fe@opensuse.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::229 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, 08 Feb 2015 17:14:39 -0000 Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > В Thu, 5 Feb 2015 21:55:54 +0000 Eric Ewanco > пишет: > >> >> Background: I need to use a really large initrd for x86_64 (Linux 3.4.47), >> and I'm near the limit, so I'm studying grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c to >> find out the whys and wherefores of the GRUB 2.00 size limit. > > GRUB 2.00 is way too old. But as far as I know grub-2.00 is the last "stable" release. There is the more current grub-2.02~beta2 that was released over a year ago, but some people prefer releases that upstream has designated as stable. Has grub gone to a policy of git snapshots only and forgone stable releases? -- Bruce