[OpenBIOS] /packages/disk-label, /packages/sun-parts and /packages/misc-files

Laurent Vivier Laurent at Vivier.EU
Thu Jun 3 16:43:21 CEST 2010


>Laurent Vivier wrote:
>
>> This one compiles and works (on ppc). I have tested with some ISOs
>> (Yaboot based, *BSD, haiku, morphos) and some disk images (Quik based
>> debians).
>> 
>> Please, test it with your disks. Don't forget:
>> 
>> <option name="CONFIG_ISO9660" type="boolean" value="true"/>
>> <option name="CONFIG_FSYS_ISO9660" type="boolean" value="false"/>
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Laurent
>
>Thanks for this Laurent.
>
>Since most of my testing is currently on SPARC64, I had to fiddle a 
>little bit with these options enabled as CONFIG_ISO9660 clashes with the 
>default CONFIG_GRUBFS and CONFIG_FSYS_ISO9660 options.
>
>Once I managed to build it, I had more of a play and found the in-built 
>ISO9660 module to be sadly lacking. In particular, it is case-sensitive 
>with respect to filenames, doesn't handle trailing periods correctly and 
>has no knowledge of RockRidge extensions compared to the grubfs version 
>which I fixed in r777.
>
>Given that the grubfs code also supports a wider variety of filesystems, 
>I'm quite tempted to rip out ALL the standard OpenBIOS fs drivers and 
>make use of the grubfs ones instead. Would anyone have any major 
>objections to this?
>

Yes, I have: I added them last year to be able to manage the "dir" command...

Regards,
Laurent

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