Re: IA64 port

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:12:52AM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > > --- grub2.orig/fs/fat.c   2007-08-02 20:40:36.000000000 +0200
> > > +++ grub2/fs/fat.c        2008-01-28 16:29:57.000000000 +0100
> > > @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ grub_fat_find_dir (grub_disk_t disk, str
> > >             continue;
> > >           }
> > >  
> > > -       if (grub_strcmp (dirname, filename) == 0)
> > > +       if (grub_strcasecmp (dirname, filename) == 0)
> > >           {
> > >             if (call_hook)
> > >               hook (filename, dir.attr & GRUB_FAT_ATTR_DIRECTORY);
> > > @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ grub_fat_find_dir (grub_disk_t disk, str
> > >     if (hook (filename, dir.attr & GRUB_FAT_ATTR_DIRECTORY))
> > >       break;
> > >   }
> > > -      else if (grub_strcmp (dirname, filename) == 0)
> > > +      else if (grub_strcasecmp (dirname, filename) == 0)
> > >   {
> > >     if (call_hook)
> > >       hook (filename, dir.attr & GRUB_FAT_ATTR_DIRECTORY);
> > 
> > Why is this needed?  I'm not sure if it's good to exploit this 
> > "unreliability"
> > feature that fat provides us ;-)
> 
> On EFI, the prefix is extracted from an EFI path, whose case may not match
> the FAT entries.

Can you be more specific about this?  What do the specs say?  We wrote
/boot/grub ourselves via grub-install;  is an EFI-compliant firmware
allowed to actively mess up case in paths we provided?

-- 
Robert Millan

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