Re: RDB partition tables in AROS

[Alain Greppin]

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 18:56 +0000, Kalamatee wrote:
> # The support shouldnt be limited to grub2 compiled on AROS only .. it
> should be possible to take grub2 from any linux flavour and so long as
> the modules are loaded and the correct grub.cfg entries present, load
> AROS from MBR embedded RDB/SFS partitions. (my comment on the #AROS
> IRC channel about the ifdef __AROS__'s)

Yes, sure. But we are not in the hurry; those __AROS__ code blocks are a
mean to show clearly what was modified. They will be removed once the
code is reviewved.
 
> # Some of the code appears to "expect" the correct modules to be
> loaded rather than check that they are? not sure how you should do
> this correctly but hopefully someone here can point out what needs
> corrected.

I tryed to keep dependencies to a minimum. But I don't know how to
overcome the amiga.mod -> pc.mod one. Waiting for advice...
 
> # AFAIK SFS can be in big or little endian so the code should check
> this before doing "grub_uint16_t nodescount =
> grub_be_to_cpu16(tree->nodes);"

We agreed whith M.Schulz, the SFS author on AROS, that SFS will be used
in it's big endian version also on little endian computers. The
performance difference is not woth the assle of maintaining two version.
And I suppose that SFS does actually exists only - on non AROS - only in
the big endian version. Can someone confirm this ?

Thanks,
Alain Greppin