[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: IA64 port
From: |
tgingold |
Subject: |
Re: IA64 port |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:56:49 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.8 |
Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:35:26AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > Quoting Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> > > > > 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?
> >
> > On EFI, we don't really know where grub is stored. There is a filesystem
> > layout convention we'd better to follow. As a consequence, we extract the
> > path from an EFI structure (I didn't write this code - it's in the EFI
> common
> > code).
>
> What would you think of case-insensitive search in grub_efi_set_prefix() ?
You mean walking the filesystem in grub_efi_set_prefix ? Humm, this looks
like a hack. The filesystem may not be FAT and there may be no way to read
directory entries (eg tftp - even if not yet supported).
If you really don't like it I can put it away for now. Grub should work
without this patch in most cases.
Tristan.
- IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/28
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/28
- 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,
tgingold <=
- 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, 2008/01/29
- Re: IA64 port, Tristan Gingold, 2008/01/30
- Re: IA64 port, Robert Millan, 2008/01/30