Re: get_diskinfo() patch: fallen through the cracks?

[Thierry Laronde]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 02:03:14AM -0700, Ben Liblit wrote:
> In early August I posted a description of problems I was having using
> GRUB as a boot loader on my machine.  A lengthy discussion ensued; see
> <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-grub/2001-August/thread.html#5353>
> for the archive.
> 
> By the end of August we had concluded that get_diskinfo_floppy() should
> be removed and get_diskinfo_standard() modified to not use it.  I
> presented a patch to implement this change.  There were no followup
> comments, but more than a month later the patch has not yet been
> applied.

Well, I'd like to know if the patch would be applied or not, since to
allow the use of non standard floppies formats, I need to copy the info
from stage1 to variables (defined in asm.S, reused by C code, namely in
init_bios --- in common.c), and the way floppies are handled at the
moment is not optimal for that. Since I will give the patches in the
very next days for CD booting and extended floppy formats, I would like
to give patch for the correct version, and not an obsolete one (at the
moment, CD booting for all options, including HD emulation, is OK; the
support for extended floppy format is OK for stage1, start.S, but now I
must modify the remaining of stage2).

Note: since I have heavily reworked stage1.S, I broke compatibility
(raised to 4.0) [this only means that you need to use compatible stage1,
stage2 and grub shell if you install from an OS, not that the user
interface has changed]. Are there two branches in GRUB cvs, stable and
unstable? Or can we start (?) to flag a version as a stable one, letting
new versions for alpha available for tests?

Thanks,
-- 
Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
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