From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5E2-0002le-OG for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:18:58 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5E2-0002lZ-2n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:18:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5E0-0002lM-EX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:18:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET5E0-0002lJ-CT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:18:56 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ET5E0-0005Or-BS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:18:56 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09341872E for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:18:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25706-07 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:18:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1FE86FE for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:18:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 117FDC045 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:18:52 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200510211417.41141.T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk> From: Marco Gerards Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:18:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200510211417.41141.T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk> (Timothy Baldwin's message of "Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:17:40 +0100") Message-ID: <87ek6eo6nn.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks) 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, 21 Oct 2005 22:18:58 -0000 Timothy Baldwin writes: > Only 16EiB on RISC OS, openfirmware and grub-emu. > > The Linux block device code in util/biosdisk.c still needs fixing or removing. > I am working on a rewrite of the i386 boot sector code which supports 64bit > disk addresses and understands partition tables (PC and GPT) and some > filesystems (maybe only FAT). Cool. > * include/grub/types.h (grub_lba_t): New typedef. Why did you choose this name? What about using grub_sector_t instead as name? I still have to look at the RISC OS patches you sent in so far. I hope you can still wait a bit, my own hacking already consumes all time I have... :-/. Sorry for this very long delay. Thanks, Marco