Re: new CBD Patch and Bugs

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Shaun Savage <address@hidden>
Subject: new CBD Patch and Bugs
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:28:05 +0100

> Here is the new CBD patch.

Where?

> During the compile I turned disabled fat,ffs,minix.reiserfs  and I found
> the in stage2/builtins.c line 458 has fat_mount even with FAT support
> turned off.  I did a #ifdef FSYS_FAT around it.

Thanks for pointing it out. But I'm not sure what the right fix is.

> Also in the documentation disk_read_hook needs to be set.  In the docs
> it states debug_fs. 
> Also the read_func needs to return a zero 0 if (len == 0)

Anyway, I will rewrite the Programmer Reference Manual, once the
source code is stabilized, because it is quite out-of-dated. Don't
care much about inaccurate sentences for now.

> 1>  Now I am going to work on adding dynamic values to kernel
> command-line.  Multi boot OS have modules that can be loaded but linux
> does not.  But I would like to pass information fron the GRUB to the
> kernel.

What does this mean?

> 2>  I also am going to work on making the menu/boot screen fancy
> (consumer eye candy).  

Note that I have a strong objection to that. It is your freedom to
implement that in your own version, but I wouldn't agree to
integrating that with the official version.

Okuji