Re: grub-probe seems to be having problems

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 08.03.2012 20:01, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:46:42PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
> wrote:
> > Yes, I've just fixed one. grub-fstest works on big-endian now.
> > Couldn't test grub-probe since the Ubuntu on my PPC test machine is
> > outdated.
> I can certainly give it a try if it is in bzr now.
It is.
> > GRUB always assumes that RAID metadata is in little-endian. We don't
> > have any "native-endian parsers" since we assume that grub-probe
> > results are valid for GRUB runtime as well even if they run on
> > different endianness. If we need any support for structures which
> > can be either le or be we compile code twice, once for le, once for
> > be (look at e.g. cpio code). I couldn't test the images created on
> > big-endian platform due to ancient distro.
> Fair enough.
I'll have to download the new distro when I'm on better internet.


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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko