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Re: RISC OS/ARM port


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: RISC OS/ARM port
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 19:03:10 +0200
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On Saturday 22 May 2004 17:21, Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> How should console errors be handled? Currently they are fatal, and
> won't happen unless the console is redirected (assuming USB drivers
> don't complain).

I don't know. Probably there is no other way than treating them as fatal 
errors.

> Currently in the design of GRUB 2 there is an incorrect asumption
> that filing systems are either based on disks or networks. I propose
> to rectify this whilst keeping code size down by:
>
> Creating a struct grub_fs_device_driver, which contains a pointer to
> either struct grub_disk_dev or struct grub_net_dev, and maintain a
> single linked list of disk drivers, net drivers, and standalone
> filing systems.
>
> Convert struct grub_device from pointers to a unoin to simplify the
> code by removing memory allocations.

Could you elaborate on your idea more? What is "standalone filing 
systems"? How do they work?

Thanks,
Okuji





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