From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1YKfaQ-0003Vn-JW for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:04:38 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKfaO-0003Sg-6G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:04:37 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKfaI-0006hE-QZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:04:36 -0500 Received: from mail-ob0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c01::229]:57193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKfaI-0006h9-LR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 23:04:30 -0500 Received: by mail-ob0-f169.google.com with SMTP id wp4so22982373obc.0 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:04:30 -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:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=i8BakXtCCYO6vhnXhDVhz8horlB3/2RwtT2wpMkbWy0=; b=tdw3IduRqT1o23PSEH4uR0erCgxr6yZ5VAHeYmY3gIJdk8iJQyxGeL0R/3HHX3/ge7 uOdO2t6cI2qM1fyMguJV7iVtHbSIazpZabTJ7lSHt/TqR8KX/MfnCflo2DL2C/sDReyK 5bQLf6tm4jdewStv6tenw10jwmCQE6kAg8tzaI9CpgJwLlhmfcJka2DArL6tbvJ13tiB 2q5XEO/6Qr8tXpLXqyuKXpTOdW1ED2V+mk6bpMI3VuIV7LDU8y5QUBCY2ESpct5rQFlL 8mmqP+W/eIFo8dn77hZ1xI3pm83mu6pdztzr4RRrx1OTfHqyY95BOVFMDHSFysRWHUJY xtKA== X-Received: by 10.182.27.164 with SMTP id u4mr10339210obg.63.1423454670218; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:04:30 -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 mq8sm4781575oeb.2.2015.02.08.20.04.28 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Feb 2015 20:04:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54D831CB.2030606@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:04:27 -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: Andrei Borzenkov Subject: Re: initrd loading, max size, addr_min, and page_align References: <66CA070CE60D374FB9F56957F4E00BBA14E22944@gbplmail01.genband.com> <20150208200230.53f274fe@opensuse.site> <54D79974.3080507@gmail.com> <20150209063050.3d64840f@opensuse.site> In-Reply-To: <20150209063050.3d64840f@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:c01::229 Cc: The development of GNU GRUB 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: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 04:04:37 -0000 Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > В Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:14:28 -0600 > Bruce Dubbs пишет: > >> 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. >> > > If you want to discuss a problem on development list, you should at > least verify if this problem exists in current code. I agree. > In practice all ditros I'm aware of are using at least 2.02~beta2 or > what effectively amounts to git snapshot. Indeed. We have gone to 2.02~beta2 also, although we prefer it when upstream labels a packages as stable. >> Has grub gone to a policy of git snapshots only and forgone stable releases? >> > > I do not think it is intentional. There are several packages that do not release stable releases but only snapshots (but it is uncommon), however AFAIK grub is one of the very few active packages that does not seem to have a regularly scheduled release process. It would actually help us if you just said that you are not going to designate stable, release candidate, beta, etc tarballs any more and it's up to the distro or individual to figure out what version to extract from version control. -- Bruce Dubbs LFS