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Re: IA64 port
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tgingold |
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Re: IA64 port |
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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:35:50 +0100 |
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Quoting Marco Gerards <address@hidden>:
> Personally I do not like working around an issue in specific code (in
> this case specific to *-efi) in generic code. Usually, this doesn't
> improve shared code.
>
> In this case, FAT is modified so fit the need of EFI. However, FAT is
> case insensitive. On windows C:\FOO.TXT is the same as c:\foo.txt.
> Although I have troubles believing people want to use a technically
> flawed non-free OS that costs a lot of money. But that might be
> something personally ;-)
>
> What matters is that it is normal that FAT is not case sensitive.
> It's defined that way. This change can't and won't be made for ext2,
> for example. You can have a ~/foo and ~/FOO side by side. AFAIK,
> this is not possible with FAT. So I think this patch is ok :-)
Ok, I will send it separately (as it is not really ia64 specific).
> Robert suggested some changes. I also noticed in the discussion that
> you didn't follow common practise (like an existing grub-mkimage
> implementation). Personally, as maintainer, I am against maintaining
> two different approaches of the same problem. It costs us time to
> maintain this and both case have separate bugs. So I rather see the
> code shared, one way or the other. To safe time, it might save you
> some work if you initiate a discussion about this.
Ok.
> If you send in a new patch that addresses Robert's concerns +
> Changelog entry, I will go over it ASAP :-). Giving the same comments
> as Robert does seems like a waste of time for everyone. Is this ok
> for you?
Ok.
Tristan.
- Re: IA64 port, (continued)
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Marco Gerards, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port,
tgingold <=
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, tgingold, 2008/01/30
Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/29