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Re: Warnings in kern/dl.c


From: Bean
Subject: Re: Warnings in kern/dl.c
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:35:07 +0800

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:14 +0300, address@hidden wrote:
>
>> I think that using grub-emu might be a good idea for testing. I think
>> there should be grub-emu architecture that could be compiled and in
>> example there would be grub-emu specific disk layer, input layer and
>> so on. So we could use grub-emu almost as same way we can do in real
>> runtime environment. I know Marco will be using grub-emu like this on
>> his GSoC project and I think it is a good thing too. But it needs some
>> work of course.
>
> Yes, that would be a different grub-emu.  Maybe it will be compiled with
> the target flags.  Maybe it will need to be disabled if cross-compiling.
>
>> We could do some special testing framework using this method. Eg. we
>> could drive user input from special user input module that can be
>> controlled from outside.
>
> I'd rather use qemu for testing, as it emulated the whole system.
> Anyway, we'll see.
>
>> So please, do not at least remove support for using 64bit modules on
>> 64bit systems :) (or otherwise make it harder to be supported later
>> on)
>
> OK, let's keep it.  I just don't want to force loading foreign
> architecture modules into the executable memory.

Hi,

Actually, GRUB_CPU_SIZEOF_VOID_P is the right one to use. It would
only cause problem in grub-mkimage, but kern/dl.c is not used by
grub-mkimage.

-- 
Bean




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