Re: Grub 2 command : uppermem (patch proposal)

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:30:32PM -0500, Bandan Das wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I was going through the Grub 2 TODO here : http://grub.enbug.org/TodoList and 
> I see that one of the many commands that need to be implemented is 
> "uppermem". 

The text in that list was a bit confusing.  We don't have to implement _all_
missing commands, only those we find useful.

> Having played around with uppermem quite a bit (thanks to the weird systems I 
> have to work with) on Grub Legacy, I was wondering if a patch for the same 
> would be considered for inclusion? Please note that I haven't started work on 
> it yet. I wanted to make sure that it's something desirable before putting up 
> a patch.

Could you describe your problem in more detail, so we can discuss if it's
something that makes uppermem worthy or we'd rather solve it in some other
way?  We don't want to leave your use case out in the cold, only to see if it
can be supported in a better way.

-- 
Robert Millan

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  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."