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Re: normal mode chainloader
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: normal mode chainloader |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:30:26 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Tomas Ebenlendr) writes:
> ad copyright:
> I will send the copyright snail-mail at this friday. Then I'm leaving to
> Norway for one month.
I think Okuji will get a message from the FSF about this. I think it
is safe to assume the FSF will receive the mail and to apply the
patch. :)
Or Okuji, do you really want to wait for the FSF to confirm this
assignment?
> ad modules:
> In fact the dependencies are written somewhere in elf format and
> depmod.lst is only for user to see what depends on what.
So that doesn't mean _chain gets autoloaded?
> autoloading:
> I wrote simple cmd-autoloading patch, but it triggers some mm-bug which I hunt
> now. Moreover my network card in my laptop (where I hack for grub) is broken,
> so I will post the patch when I return.
Which bugs are those? I had some mm problems with the PPC port as
well.
If it is incorrect usage of malloc and free, you could use valgrind.
> ad normal mode chainloader:
> Consider moving loader/i386/pc/chainloader_normal.c to
> commands/chainloader.c. I don't know which placement is better. (This
> file will not contain any architecture dependent code as long as
> arguments passed to command chainloader will be same for all
> architectures.)
No, the chainloader is for the PC only. And it depends on something
that is arch specific.
Thanks,
Marco