From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmen-0003YZ-CF for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:21:30 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmej-0003XL-HS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:21:26 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmef-0003Wa-S7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:21:23 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJmef-0003WC-BN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:21:21 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJmef-00068D-53 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:21:21 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJmec-000164-De for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:21:20 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JJmcu-00082F-RN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:19:32 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:19:32 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080129091932.GH30048@thorin> References: <5cc84b460801281910v5fb8ac79pda9491c57b5cc585@mail.gmail.com> <87fxwhc9uv.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080129085932.GB30048@thorin> <87fxwhatda.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87fxwhatda.fsf@xs4all.nl> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: eltorito support .. 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: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:21:26 -0000 On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 10:11:45AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan writes: > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:30:16AM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> Kalamatee writes: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> > I read in previous mails that eltorito support would be getting worked on > >> > for the summer of code projects, and that it should be getting merged into > >> > the grub2 codebase at somepoint. > >> > > >> > Im just wondering what is the current situation with this? Is there any > >> > timeline when it will be completed? > >> > >> Actually, I have no idea... Alex Roman worked on this. Perhaps you > >> can contact him? The code is on the GSoC projects page. Robert tried > >> to get it to work, but IIRC there were problems. > > > > I think using the ata driver would be a better approach. When our driver > > doesn't "taint" bios-based CD access, we could merge the eltorito loader from > > GSoC codebase, without having to solve the problems in biosdisk CD access. > > I prefer both. Not all CDROM drives are ATA drives. But we are likely to get USB support this summer :-) Besides, unlike floppy or disk boot, code size is not that much of an issue for cdrom boot. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)