From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DqlsI-00084a-8j for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:58:10 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DqlsE-00082g-GI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:58:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqlrs-0007xN-Bu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:58:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqlrq-0007jS-Fk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:57:43 -0400 Received: from [212.43.237.68] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DqlYP-0003Ni-QW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:37:37 -0400 Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D73FF31FAE for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 07:30:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=ip6-localhost) by ASSP-nospam ; 8 Jul 05 05:30:46 -0000 From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 07:30:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <42BFED32.9000300@inma.ucl.ac.be> <200507051832.17241.okuji@enbug.org> <42CAECFD.1050907@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <42CAECFD.1050907@yahoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507080730.35483.okuji@enbug.org> Subject: Re: rmll - grub2 presentation X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 05:58:08 -0000 On Tuesday 05 July 2005 22:26, Vincent Pelletier wrote: > Oh no :( . > I was planning to make a surprise : I've implemented last night a "play" > command in grub that plays on the standard buzzer a tune read from an > on-disk file. Sorry. This sounds funny. > Now I don't know if it is pertinent to submit it as a patch... > On the one hand, there is no space to loose, and making it a module > would make it noticeable. > On the other hand, having the FSF song as an easter egg (and maybe > others) could be fun. It is not a bad thing to have this code as a module. The goodness of GRUB 2 is that it allows us to have non-critical code without losing space. > Another problem would be the portability. Although the hurd code says it > can be used in a wide range of architectures, I think the won't like my > inb & outb... Well, it is arch-dependent. But somebody might port it to other architectures. Who knows... Okuji