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Re: Second stage bootloader (i386) hangs on ls command for ext2



Hi,

Evgeniy Ivanov wrote:

> Izumi, thank you for reviewing! New patches are attached.
 :
> > I think it's better to use a positive LIBSA_ENABLE_LS_OP option rather
> > than LIBSA_NO_LS_OP, and make whole (fs_ops)->ls op part optional because
> >  - there are many primary bootloaders (bootxx_foo) which don't need
> >   the ls op and have size restrictions (alpha, atari, pmax ...)
> >  - there are few bootloaders which support command prompt mode where
> >   the `ls' op is actually required (some ports don't have even getchar())
> 
> Done.
> 
> > We also have to check all other non-x86 bootloaders which refer ufs_ls().
> > (ews4800mips, ia64, landisk, x68k, zaurus etc)
> 
> Done. I'm not able to check though, but the modification is trivial
> and almost the same as for i386.

Committed all changes (with several fixes for ews4800mips and x68k)
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2011/12/25/msg029999.html

Thank you for your great work!

Now it's time for someone[TM] to try PR/30866 :-)
http://gnats.NetBSD.org/30866

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Izumi Tsutsui


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