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merging GRUB patches


From: Andrew Clausen
Subject: merging GRUB patches
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:42:33 -0200

Hi all,

Conectiva has modified GRUB:
* add a graphical interface
* bug fixes:
        - initrd loaded in incorrect place, if mem=XXX doesn't
        match what GRUB thinks the memory size is
        - fixes for when video and main memory is shared
        - heaps more... (see our ChangeLog, attached)

Also, we believe other distributions have been doing similar things.
We would like to merge our version with the official GNU version.

Should we split all of our changes into individual patches, or
just the final version?  Do you want a complete list of changes?


The source RPM, for our version distributed with Conectiva Linux 6 is:

ftp://ftp.conectiva.com/pub/conectiva/6.0/cd3/SRPMS/grub-0.5.95-15cl.src.rpm

BTW: Are there any changes that you don't want to be applied?
(eg: the GUI?)

Thanks,
Andrew Clausen
* Wed Nov  1 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Changed boot.c:load_initrd() to not test memory location. This is required
  for cases where grub incorrectly detects the amount of memory.

* Tue Oct 31 2000 Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin <address@hidden>
- explicitly compress info pages.

* Tue Oct 31 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Added code to parse mem= option for kernel, and load initrd
  before the end of the memory specified to kernel.

* Mon Oct 30 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Added memory checking code for Compaq Proliant machines.

* Thu Oct 26 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Fix for problems when passing the kernel command line. The address was
  changed in grub 0.5.96.1, and some changes from that version were missing.

* Thu Oct 26 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Added code to correctly load initrd on machines with shared cpu/video
  memory. This problem was the only one reported since merging partially
  with grub 0.5.96.1.

* Tue Oct 24 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Added fixes to correct problems with graphics mode cursor emulation with
  i810 based cards. Added patch to avoid memory usage overlaps with the
  new code for background images. I.e. when running something like
  "kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz" the background image will not be corrupted.

* Mon Oct 23 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Imported some improvements from grub 0.5.96.1. Mainly for the make it
  able to load memtest.

* Fri Oct 20 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Added "shade INTEGER" option.

* Mon Oct 16 2000 Rudá Moura <address@hidden>
- ooppss buildprereq: binutils (not prereq :)

* Sat Sep 30 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Changed to correctly load initrd on machines with more than 960Mb of
  memory.

* Mon Sep 25 2000 Paulo César Pereira de Andrade <address@hidden>
- Updated to the conectiva-patches cvs version (see cvs.conectiva.com.br).
- This version includes support a vga 16 colors display, and a background
  image.

* Mon Jul 24 2000 Rodrigo Barbosa <address@hidden>
- Updated the spec file to use rpm macros and to conform with the distro
  directives
- Updated to 0.5.95
- Fixed %post section to conform with Maximum RPM directives

* Mon Oct 25 1999 Guilherme Wunsch Manika <address@hidden>
- Compressed info pages, and added %post and %preun

* Mon Oct 25 1999 Guilherme Wunsch Manika <address@hidden>
- Added to Conectiva Linux

* Wed Sep 29 1999 Guilherme Wunsch Manika <address@hidden>
- Created package


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