From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HUWim-0007JI-H1 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:29:28 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HUWik-0007Ih-QQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:29:26 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HUWij-0007I9-2u for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:29:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HUWii-0007I4-W5; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:29:24 -0500 Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.36]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HUWgs-0007a0-AT; Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:27:30 -0400 Received: from saphi (boi78-1-82-232-198-173.fbx.proxad.net [82.232.198.173]) by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12E659EA8; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:27:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from gingold by saphi with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HUWlQ-0000et-00; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:32:12 +0100 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:32:12 +0100 To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070322233212.GC2498@saphi> References: <4600d7ad.0fbdf68c.519b.057c@mx.google.com> <873b3wlwq4.wl@dekkers.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <873b3wlwq4.wl@dekkers.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Tristan Gingold X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 Cc: summer-of-code@gnu.org, xiongyi Subject: Re: Question about the GNU Grub ideas 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: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:29:27 -0000 On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:49:55PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > At Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:58:54 -0800, > xiongyi wrote: [...] > > 2. The goal of grub2 for efi support is the same as the one of elilo, > > namely an efi OS Loader (also an efi application, for example elilo.efi file > > in the elilo project). Is that right? > > Yes, the purpose is to load GRUB on EFI hardware so that GRUB can do > all the things it normally does when you load it from standard x86 > BIOS. Compared to elilo, grub2 can't boot from network. > > 3. There is a real EFI platform in my lab, but I will graduate and > > leave that lab in this June. Accordingly, I have some considerations about > > the development platform and environment. If the efi feature of grub2 is > > only an efi OS loader, whether the EDK open source project can serve as the > > development and debug platform. > > My experience is that while you can develop and test on such things, > real hardware has subtle differences most of the time and you always > need hardware to test whether it really works. You may use qemu. Tristan