Re: [PATCH] a.out support for multiboot and freebsd

[Bean]

On Feb 10, 2008 5:22 PM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Bean wrote:
> > On Feb 10, 2008 5:57 AM, walt <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Bean wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> This patch add a.out support for multiboot. It also support the boot2
> >>> loader (a.out format) of freebsd:
> >>>
> >>> set root=(hd0,0,a)
> >>> aout_freebsd /boot/loader
> >>> boot
> >>>
> >>> 2008-02-10  Bean<address@hidden> ...
> >> Hi Bean, and thanks for the patch.  Unfortunately, the patch is malformed
> >> in at least two places and also has whitespace corruption.  I did my best
> >> to edit the patch by hand until it seemed to apply okay, but I don't trust
> >> my results.
> >>
> >> I have this same patch corruption problem with many of your posts.  Can
> >> you change the way you attach patches somehow?  Maybe change email client?
> >> Anyone else have a suggestion?
> >>
> >> Bean, can you download your own patch from the mailing list and see if it
> >> will apply to your own code?
> >
> > i'm using the web interface to send patch, maybe it cause some
> > problem. here is the
> > raw diff file, it should be fine.
>
> Hi,
>
> I looked differences of your patch attachments as compared with others
> that seems to be working nicely. When you copy'n'paste they will get
> broken.
>
> Here is example from my message (mail client was Thunderbird):
>
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>   name="unknown_glyph.diff"
> Content-Disposition: inline;
>   filename="unknown_glyph.diff"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64
>
> And here is example from your email:
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=a3.diff
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> X-Attachment-Id: f_fch5ujm00
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=a3.diff
>
> With a quick check, gmail indeed does send them as binary as default
> when using Opera. Then I configured Opera to understand diff files (eg.
> that they are "text/plain"), after that gmail sent patches nicely.
> Perhaps you could add new MIME type to your web browser to handle "diff"
> file extesions as "text/plain"?

I'm using firefox, is there a way to add MIME types ? or maybe i can
rename the patch files as *.txt.

-- 
Bean