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Re: status grub2 port of grub-legasy map command


From: phcoder
Subject: Re: status grub2 port of grub-legasy map command
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:34:39 +0200
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Yes it is. Also it's better to use grub_mmap_iterate instead of basing the location on 0x413 value. How to do it look at mmap/i386/pc/mmap.c
John Stanley wrote:
I'd be happy to sign a copywrite statement, no problem -- how do I go about it ?

Is this what you're referring to:

/* BDA offset 0x13 contains the top of conventional memory, in kiB. */
     grub_uint16_t *bpa_freekb = (grub_uint16_t*)0x00000413;
     .
     .
     *bpa_freekb -= payload_sizekb;

where payload_sizekb is the size of the drivemap int13 handler + its mapped drive table ?


phcoder wrote:
If you want your code to be incorporated you need to sign the copyright assignment.
John Stanley wrote:
I have also incorporated your mmap services patch as well (again with minor mods to build in r2106). My question at this point, is how best to incorporate mmap services into drivemap. I see that in mmap/i386/pc/mmap.c there is some sort of support for int12 and int15 services. Should I incorporate the drivemap int13 handler here ? Looks relatively straightforward -- just insert the asm handler into mmap/i386/pc/mmap_helper.S and update mmap/i386/pc/mmap.c -- (except for how I place the mapped drives table), or, should I use the mmap.c code as a template for the drivemap int13 handler plus mapped drives table ?
Don't do it that way. It merges 2 unrelated modules. At some point drivermap does following
*bpaMemInKb -= ...;
But this isn't correct because mmap interrupts still list the memory used by drivemap as available. Use grub_mmap_register instead of it.

thanks for any help/suggestions,
John

phcoder wrote:
I haven't yet looked in depth in drivemap patch but it has some problems. It uses preboot hook interface for which I proposed an update in my recent patch "preboot hooks". Also it doesn't update memorymap correctly. For this it should use my "mmap services" interface
John Stanley wrote:
Thanks Felix,

Hurm.. Well, if anyone is interested, I have just made a couple of additional updates to the drivemap.path.8 code, and now with r2104 the "unaligned pointer" issue is gone, and it is working great on my systems. I can post the patch if you or anyone else is interested.
John


Felix Zielcke wrote:
Am Montag, den 13.04.2009, 21:03 -0400 schrieb John Stanley:
Hi all,
I was wondering what the current status of a grub2 port of the grub-0.97 "map" and "rootnoverify" commands is? I have found some work done to this end in the "drivemap.patch" work, but I find nothing more recent than drivemap.patch.8 dated around Aug 2008.

The current status of it are exactly what you found out.
I don't know if that'll ever change.


Could anyone give me any pointers/direction on what might be happening here? Could it be that the "norootverify"-functionality of grub-legasy is lacking here? Or, perhaps, that the "--force" option is not being honored ?

rootnoverify isn't needed anymore, because root is now just a variable
and not anymore a command which tried to verify it. So basically
rootnoverify is default now.
chainloader --force just skips the check for 0xaa55, normally it
shouldn't be needed with a valid windows bootsector.


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