From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1Bg1fu-0007iX-C0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:32:26 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bg1fs-0007iO-6t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:32:24 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bg1fp-0007i0-JS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:32:23 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bg1fo-0007hx-PA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:32:21 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bg1du-0003u7-8b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:30:22 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6598325 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:30:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01865-03 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:30:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9171845A for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:30:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (a82-92-27-129.adsl.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A7EC048 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:30:19 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20040621180005.GA11079@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20040624165104.GA19623@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <87lli49ewg.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <200407011317.58621.okuji@enbug.org> <20040701115321.GA21964@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:30:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040701115321.GA21964@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> (Tomas Ebenlendr's message of "Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:53:21 +0200") Message-ID: <87hdsram8d.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: normal mode chainloader X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:32:24 -0000 ebik@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Tomas Ebenlendr) writes: > ad copyright: > I will send the copyright snail-mail at this friday. Then I'm leaving to > Norway for one month. I think Okuji will get a message from the FSF about this. I think it is safe to assume the FSF will receive the mail and to apply the patch. :) Or Okuji, do you really want to wait for the FSF to confirm this assignment? > ad modules: > In fact the dependencies are written somewhere in elf format and > depmod.lst is only for user to see what depends on what. So that doesn't mean _chain gets autoloaded? > autoloading: > I wrote simple cmd-autoloading patch, but it triggers some mm-bug which I hunt > now. Moreover my network card in my laptop (where I hack for grub) is broken, > so I will post the patch when I return. Which bugs are those? I had some mm problems with the PPC port as well. If it is incorrect usage of malloc and free, you could use valgrind. > ad normal mode chainloader: > Consider moving loader/i386/pc/chainloader_normal.c to > commands/chainloader.c. I don't know which placement is better. (This > file will not contain any architecture dependent code as long as > arguments passed to command chainloader will be same for all > architectures.) No, the chainloader is for the PC only. And it depends on something that is arch specific. Thanks, Marco