From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Qin Xiaohan Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:47:11 +0000 Subject: Re: efibootmgr 0.5.2.2 for testing Message-Id: <200508120947.11103.xhqin@redflag-linux.com> List-Id: References: <20050811181028.GA12525@lists.us.dell.com> In-Reply-To: <20050811181028.GA12525@lists.us.dell.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Dear Matt: I just do simply testing,It works fine,I will ask our developer Starney(zxni@redflag-linux.com) do more testing and give you a report later. On Friday 12 August 2005 02:10, Matt Domsch wrote: > I've put out a test version of efibootmgr, I'd appreciate people with > the capabilities to test this and report back. I'm hoping this fixes > the cases reported where a 32-bit efibootmgr on a 32-bit kernel wasn't > working correctly, but I don't have such equipment to test myself. If > it's all good, I'll release it as 0.5.3. > > Rogerio, I gave -@ a long option --append-binary-args, rather than > --@, to be consistent with the other long options. > > Thanks to Brad Chen and Ping Wei from Intel for their debugging and patch > suggestions. > > > * Thu Aug 11 2005 Matt Domsch > - applied patch from Rogerio Timmers which adds a new option -@ , > which takes extra variable parameters from , or - from stdin. > This lets you pass binary (non-unicode, non-ascii) formatted options to > your bootloader. > - cleaned up Rogerio's patch some. > - moved definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITSd into Makefile and out of the > individual .c files. This fixes a bug reported by Red Flag, where > variable data was getting incorrectly set with a 32-bit copy of > efibootmgr on a 32-bit kernel. > - made efi_variable_t.DataSize be an unsigned long to match the kernel. > This lets a 32-bit copy of efibootmgr run on a 32-bit kernel. This > means you've got to have a 32-bit efibootmgr on a 32-bit kernel, and a > 64-bit efibootmgr on a 64-bit kernel, but since efi_status_t is also a > long, this was really going to be the case anyway. > - valgrind caught the app exiting without freeing some malloc'd > structures, fix that. > - v0.5.2.2 released for testing > > > http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr/testing/efibootmgr-0.5.2.2.tar.gz > http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr/testing/efibootmgr-0.5.2.2.tar.gz.sign > > > Thanks, > Matt -- Best Regards Qin Xiaohan Product Manager Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. Tel:(8610)82656655 Ext.2637 Fax:(8610)82658096 Address: 6/F, Zijin Bldg., 68 Wanquanhe Rd.,               Haidian Dist., Beijing, P.R.China Zip:100086 Email:xhqin@redflag-linux.com Http://www.redflag-linux.com