Re: Caldera patches

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:59, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> I've recently ported the Caldera's patches from grub-0.5.96.1
> to grub-0.91 and I wonder if the GRUB project would be interested
> in integrating them back into the main tree. The patches are:

To comment on at least a couple of these...
 
> grub-0.91-splash.patch - the "splashscreen" command for a graphical
>   splashscreen

Is this based off of the same patch that Conectiva (and now Red Hat)
uses?  If not, I would be interested in seeing a copy off-list at least.

> grub-0.91-initrd16M.patch - I'm not sure what exactly it does but it looks
>   like support for a larger RAM disk image

This patch is a hack to work around the fact that grub didn't follow
mem= and set the maximum location for the initrd loaded to be at 16
megs.  I sent a better patch to handle this correctly earlier this week
(also available at
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/patches/grub-0.91-initrdusemem.patch)

> grub-0.91-nomeminfo.patch - by default does not pass the "mem=" option
>   to the Linux kernel since Linux 2.4 is able to determine the memory
>   size by itself. Again, I'm not sure if it's of general interest.

You can accomplish the same effect by passing
--disable-auto-linux-mem-opt to configure.

Cheers,

Jeremy